Monday, June 16, 2008

GREENPEACE SUED OVER FALSE GLOBAL WARMING CLAIMS

Spanish homeowners are angry that Greenpeace's Global Warming claims are driving down their property values:

Altered Photographs of Sea Level Rise to Blame

A group of Spanish homeowners and real estate developers have filed suit against Greenpeace for its global warming campaign, which they say has caused a steep decrease in the price of their beachfront properties.

The suit -- which the developers plan to present unless Greenpeace agrees to a settlement of nearly $50M -- is over resort properties in La Manga del Mar Menor, in Southwest Spain.

Greenpeace, in their recent book Photoclima, prominently featured digitally altered photographs of the resort, with only the tops of apartment buildings, hotels, and palm trees barely visible above a flooded sea. The book also showed before-and-after photos of Spain's lush lemon and orange growing region of Valencia, transformed into an arid desert.

"We want[ed] to create alarm and a call to action", said Juan Lopez de Uralde, Greenpeace's director in Spain.

Greenpeace admits it. They are willing to lie in order to "create alarm."

If Global Warming was real, they would only have to tell the truth.

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