Patrick Moore is not a Greenpeace founder

There has been a recent resurgence in the visibility of one of the deniers' favorite spokesmodels: Patrick Moore, "Greenpeace Co-Founder." A recent Breitbart UK article, for example, covered the forward Moore wrote in yet another denier's book. The piece espouses the beloved mantra of the conservative media that a "Greenpeace Co-Founder says there is no proof of climate change."

The problem, however, is that Moore was NOT a Greenpeace co-founder. In fact, he applied to join the group a year AFTER it was created. And in the last 20 years, he has been a paid spokesman for timber, mining, chemical, nuclear and other industries.

Had any media outlets bothered to do even a cursory googling of "Greenpeace co-founder," they would have seen this nice Media Matters story on Moore detailing his 20 years as a spokesman for the nuclear industry and other polluters.