Greenpeace's executive director, Gerd Leipold, was busted by the BBC's Stephen Sackur for lying about the effects of global warming in the video below.
On July 15th, Greenpeace put out a press release saying the arctic ice caps would melt by 2030, a claim that Leipold now admits is false. Rather than own up, and say it was a mistake and he'd never let it happen again, he says Greenpeace is "a pressure group" that has to "emotionalize issues, and we're not ashamed" of it.
This is horrible. Imagine if an oil company executive, or the head of the American Petroleum Institute made the same concession.
This is the problem with the global warming debate. Most people don't feel the effects of a warming planet on day to day basis, so proponents need to overstate the effects to get people's attention. Of course, the devastating effects are always predicted to be 20-30 years away, so we can't call them out if they're wrong.
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