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  Patrick Moore - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
During the Second World War, Moore served in the RAF and from 1940 until 1945 was a navigator in RAF Bomber Command, reaching the rank of Flight Lieutenant.
Sir Patrick has done some significant work in the field of astronomy: in 1959, the Soviet Union used his charts of the moon to correlate their first pictures of the far side with his mapped features on the near side and he was involved in the lunar mapping used by the NASA Apollo space missions.
In 2001, Moore was knighted and was appointed a Fellow of the Royal Society.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patrick_Moore   (1036 words)

  
 Patrick Moore (environmentalist) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Patrick Moore (born 1947) the son of a wealthy logging camp owner on Vancouver Island, has been a leader in the international environmental field for over 30 years.
Moore served for four years as Vice President, Environment for Waterfurnace International, the largest manufacturer of geothermal heat pumps for residential heating and cooling with renewable earth energy.
Moore has been criticized by environmentalists for his support of nuclear power and genetically modified organisms.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Patrick_Moore_(environmentalist)   (871 words)

  
 Patrick Moore: bio and encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Moore was born in Pinner (Pinner: A woman's cap with two long flaps pinned on) in Middlesex (Middlesex: middlesex was an administrative area in england, mostly covered by greater london....
Moore's only known relationship ended when his fiance, a nurse, was killed when a bomb fell on her ambulance.
From 1965–1968 Patrick Moore was the Director of the Armagh Planetarium.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /reference/patrick_moore   (1150 words)

  
 The Sensible Environmentalist
Moore was the leader of many campaigns and a driving force shaping the policy and direction that helped Greenpeace grow to become the world's largest environmental activist organization.
Moore is the former Vice President, Environment for Water Furnace International, the largest manufacturer of geothermal heat pumps for residential heating and cooling with renewable earth energy.
Patrick Moore began calling himself a "sensible" environmentalist because he saw the environmental movement becoming too extreme - falling prey to misguided priorities and refusing to evolve beyond confrontational tactics.
www.idahoforests.org /sensible.htm   (648 words)

  
 Environmentalist   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Moore, who calls himself "the sensible environmentalist," said the environment is in better shape than some extreme environmental groups would have the public think, and the agriculture industry must invest more time, money and energy to push back against environmental myths.
Although a founding member of Greenpeace, Moore's views began to diverge from those of the organization in the 1980s, he said, when the environmental movement was hijacked by political extremists whose positions were not based on science or even common sense.
Some of the things Moore said he was in favor of might be anathema to many of today's environmental activists: things like using biotechnology to address hunger and disease in poor countries.
www.fb.org /news/fbn/html/environmentalist.html   (366 words)

  
 Patrick Moore -   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Moore was born in Pinner, Middlesex, United Kingdom and at an early age moved to Sussex, where he grew up.
Moore has done some significant work in the field of astronomy: in 1959, the Soviet Union used his charts of the moon to correlate their first pictures of the far side with his mapped features on the near side and he was involved in the lunar mapping used by the NASA Apollo space missions.
In 1965, Moore was appointed Director of the newly-constructed Armagh Planetarium, a post he held until 1968.
psychcentral.com /psypsych/Patrick_Moore   (1022 words)

  
 Wired 12.03: Eco-Traitor
Patrick Moore was on board for that inaugural voyage, and he went on to serve as president of Greenpeace from 1977 to 1979 and as a member of the international board for seven years after that.
Moore is equal parts tinkerer and mystic, and his environmental thinking may be an attempt to reconcile those two impulses.
Moore's new interest in sustainable development led him increasingly far afield of the rest of the environmental movement and estranged him from the organization he had helped found.
www.wired.com /wired/archive/12.03/moore_pr.html   (2595 words)

  
 AUM - Auburn University Montgomery
Patrick Moore, known as "The Sensible Environmentalist," will be the guest speaker at the inaugural lecture in the new series Energy and the Environment, sponsored by Alabama Power.
Moore is a founding member of Greenpeace and served for nine years as president of Greenpeace Canada and seven years as a director of Greenpeace International.
As the leader of many campaigns, Moore was a driving force shaping policy and direction while Greenpeace became the world’s largest environmental activist organization.
www.aum.edu /Hotspots/hotspots.cfm?id=4819   (311 words)

  
 News -- Greenpeace Co-Founder Decries ‘Ecologically Unsound Claims’   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Moore, who left Greenpeace several years ago and recently published a book entitled, “Green Spirit: Trees Are the Answer” said deforestation does not have the detrimental outcomes some environmentalists say it does.
Moore said it would be more beneficial for plants and wildlife if trees were growing on lands rather than a farm crop like hemp.
Moore said he supports the World Wildlife Fund’s recommendation that 10 percent of the forests in the world be protected in parks and wilderness reserves, “Perhaps it should even be 15 percent,” he added.
www.thehoya.com /news/041001/news4.htm   (646 words)

  
 NAFI |View News Article
Here in Part 2 of that interview, Dr Moore looks at the critical issues facing the ongoing establishment of sustainable forest management practices around the world, the role of forest certifications schemes and considers how to deal with what he identifies as anti-forestry groups and their attempts to thwart sensible environmental outcomes.
Patrick Moore: I think that it had the potential to be a bit of a Trojan horse.
Patrick Moore: I think the Wood Promotion Network is having a significant influence on green building standards and is working on a number of fronts, working with the National Home Builder’s Association in the US and with their counterparts in Canada on developing alternative green building standards and systems.
www.nafi.com.au /news/view.php3?id=1119&printfriendly=1   (3744 words)

  
 The New Environmentalist - Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
By Patrick Moore, Ph.D. I believe that trees are the answer to a lot of questions about our future.
If environmentalists would recognize this fact it would inevitably lead them to believe that the answer is in growing more trees and using more wood rather than in reducing our use of this most renewable resource.
Patrick Moore, Ph.D. ("My friends tell me it stands for 'Piled higher and Deeper'") posing beside a Sitka spruce that has grown back after logging that took place about 100 years ago.
www.thenewenvironmentalist.com /articles_0502/feature/toc_fea2.html   (8139 words)

  
 Top-Ten Lies Told by Patrick Moore
Moore is paid by the British Columbia Forest Alliance: an industry-front group set up by public relations firm Burson-Marsteller (the same PR firm that represented Exxon after the Valdez oil spill and Union Carbide after the Bhopal chemical disaster).
Moore was a former director of Greenpeace; Judas was also one of the twelve Disciples.
Environmentalists seek to save remaining old-growth forests, while Patrick Moore's employers seek to cut these forests down.
www.fanweb.org /patrick-moore/liar.html   (633 words)

  
 Speaker Profile - Dr. Patrick Moore
Patrick Moore believes that one of our most serious environmental problems can be attributed to the ineffective communication between special interest groups and the business community.
Moore was a founding member and former President of Greenpeace, and current is the Chair and Chief Scientist of the environmental consulting firm Greenspirit Strategies.
Moore has played a prominent role in raising environmentalism to the forefront of public concern in Canada and throughout the world.
www.nsb.com /speakerbio.asp?i_speakerid=106   (253 words)

  
 Clay Center Dispatch
One of the founders of Greenpeace says the world environmentalist movement today has lost its way and is demanding policies that are a greater threat to the environment and civilization than the ills it seeks to prevent.
Dr. Patrick Moore, a self-described "born-again ecologist," says the movement's drive against technological advances, including genetic engineering, is based on bad or non-existent science and that today's environmentalist radicals are being used by a variety of corporate and political interests.
Moore said there is "not a single case" of a relationship between pesticides in food and cancer in humans, but that fresh fruit and vegetables are the best cancer fighters and people are actually at greater risk by avoiding them because of the pesticide scare.
www.zwire.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14129946&BRD=1160&PAG=461&dept_id=190958&rfi=6   (1336 words)

  
 Forest Certification Watch Article Print Page
Patrick Moore: I believe the main positive trend has been that from only putting value on timber and on certain wildlife species that have either certain economic or sports value to today’s trend where the full range of biodiversity is recognised as having value.
Patrick Moore: The best place to establish fast-growing plantations is on good land with high productivity, so we would focus on bottom lands and lands that are more southern, for example, the Niagara Peninsula.
Patrick Moore: There certainly is a very strong awareness these days about the importance of forests, and I think one of the key messages in the petition is that the more wood we use, the more forests we will have to grow.
certificationwatch.org /print.php3?id_article=1989   (6486 words)

  
 Environmentalist Patrick Moore is University Lecture Series Speaker at Fresno State
Patrick Moore, a leader in the international environmental field for more than 30 years, will be featured Tuesday, Feb. 28, in the University Lecture Series at California State University, Fresno.
Moore was a founding member of Greenpeace and served for nine years as director of Greenpeace International.
He believes that one of our most serious environmental problems can be attributed to the ineffective communication between special interest groups and the business community, and he seeks to reveal the myths and misinformation that distort current environmental debates.
www.fresnostatenews.com /2006/02/Environmentalist.htm   (331 words)

  
 Greenspirit - Support Bjorn Lomborg - The Skeptical Environmentalist
The environmentalists Ehrlich, Harte and Holdren, all of
What environmentalists mainly say on this topic is not that we are running out of energy but that we are running out of environment—that is, running out of the capacity of air, water, soil and biota to absorb, without intolerable consequences for human well-being, the effects of energy extraction, transport, transformation and use.
Environmentalists who predicted widespread famine and blamed rapid population growth for many of the world’s environmental, economic and social problems overstated their cases.
www.greenspirit.com /lomborg   (17715 words)

  
 BioAtlantech - Nouvelles et événements :: À la une
Dr. Patrick Moore, a world-renowned Canadian environmentalist, ecologist and founding member of Greenpeace, spoke to a group of forestry students at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton.
Moore's views are in sharp contrast to those of many environmental activists.
Moore was with Greenpeace for 15 years during which time he served as President of Greenpeace Canada for nine and as a Director of Greenpeace International for seven years.
www.bioatlantech.nb.ca /french/021404.html   (311 words)

  
 Greenpeace founder calls extremists 'anti-human'
Moore's message was wellreceived by the roughly 100 members of the trade group on the last day of its annual conference.
Moore went on to claim that campaigning against clear-cutting of forests (as Greenpeace does) is an advertising gimmick for "fundraising purposes" and "has no basis whatsoever in science." Moore concluded, "I believe they have thrown truth out of the window on this one.
Moore's other attacks on environmental groups have often been of an extreme character, claiming for example that they are riddled with communists, that they have 'anti-human','anti-democratic' and 'anti-civilization' attitudes, and that they are guided by a mixture of 'pagan beliefs' and 'junk science'.
ngin.tripod.com /131202d.htm   (2094 words)

  
 Hard Choices: Environmentalists and the Forests - by Patrick Moore, Ph.D. - The Heartland Institute
Environmentalists were invited to the table in boardrooms and ca ucuses around the world to help design solutions to pressing ecological problems.
Rather than accept this invitation to be part of the solution, many environmentalists chose instead to radicalize their message.
Patrick Moore is an expert on forest and energy issues, having earned a Ph.D. in ecology from the University of British Columbia in 1972.
www.heartland.org /Article.cfm?artId=348   (814 words)

  
 ESPN Outdoors - Patrick Moore: Building green   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Patrick Moore grew up in the rainforests of the Pacific Northwest — and holds a doctorate in ecology from the University of British Columbia.
I believe that a sensible environmentalist would, in building a new home, focus wherever possible on the use of wood, renewable energy, and energy efficiency.
Patrick Moore has been a leader of the environmental movement for more than 30 years.
sports.espn.go.com /outdoors/conservation/columns/story?columnist=moore_patrick&page=c_col_Moore_build_green_WPN   (515 words)

  
 AgBioView Newsletter on Agricultural Biotechnology
Moore abandoned Greenpeace in 1986 after growing frustrated by what he calls the infiltration into the movement of radicals bent on nothing short of ridding the world of capitalism and biotechnology.
Moore would like to go further and commission a study that would attempt to quantify the average increased yield, and average reduction in pesticide and herbicide use, from genetically modified crops like Bt (Bacillus thuringiensis) corn, cotton and soybeans.
Moore, however, believes that only hard data could prove him right as he feels that science is on his side.
www.agbioworld.org /newsletter_wm/index.php?caseid=archive&newsid=2331   (5115 words)

  
 NAFI |View News Article
Canadian environmentalist Dr Patrick Moore has launched a petition to support a Declaration in support of the environment, aimed at growing more trees and using wood in preference to alternative materials such as metals and plastics.
Patrick Moore has been a leader in the international environmental field for over 30 years.
Dr Moore was a founding member of Greenpeace, and is now an enthusiastic advocate for sustainable forest management.
www.nafi.com.au /news/view.php3?id=467&printfriendly=1   (181 words)

  
 CASEnergy Coalition : About Us : Our Co-Chairs   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
Patrick Moore, Ph.D. “The Sensible Environmentalist” - Dr. Patrick Moore has been a leader in the international environmental field for over 30 years.
Moore served for four years as Vice President, Environment for Waterfurnace International, a manufacturer of geothermal heat pumps for residential heating and cooling with renewable earth energy.
Moore currently serves as Chair and Chief Scientist of Greenspirit Strategies, a consultancy focusing on environmental policy and communications in forestry, agriculture, fisheries and aquaculture, mining, biodiversity, energy and climate change.
www.cleansafeenergy.org /index.php/about_us/our_co_chairs/2.html   (352 words)

  
 Patrick Moore Interview
Patrick Moore is a man environmental activists love to hate.
Moore: The biotech sector has chosen it as the issue on which they will stand or die because it so clearly goes beyond the purely financial, corporate profit-type argument, and has a very powerful moral dimension.
Moore: Well, it is a tempest in a teapot, but I think it's more of an object lesson for American regulators.
www.brucegoldfarb.com /moore.htm   (1546 words)

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