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==Early life==
Moore was born in 1947 to Bill and Beverley Moore in [[Port Alice, British Columbia]], and raised in [[Winter Harbour, British Columbia|Winter Harbour]], on Vancouver Island. He is the third generation of a British Columbian family with a long history in forestry and fishing. His father, William D. Moore, was the president of the B.C. Truck Loggers Association and past president of the Pacific Logging Congress.<ref>[http://www.greenspirit.com/about.cfm?resume=1 Moore Resume] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070105205518/http://www.greenspirit.com/about.cfm?resume=1 |date=January 5, 2007 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last=Lasure |first=Graham |year=2014 |title=Biography |url=http://www.wdmoore.ca/index.php/biography |website=Bill Moore: The Forest Around Us |publisher=W. D. Moore Log Co. Ltd. |location=Winter Harbour, BC}}</ref> Moore was educated at [[St. George's School (Vancouver)|St. George's School]],<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=XYmQrujA5g0C&pg=PA119|title=Make It a Green Peace!: The Rise of a Countercultural Environmentalism|first=Frank|last=Zelko|date=May 30, 2013|publisher=OUP USA|via=Google Books|isbn=9780199947089}}</ref> then attended the [[University of British Columbia]], where he obtained a [[Bachelor of Science|B.Sc.]] in [[Forest ecology|Forest Biology]] in 1969, and a [[Doctor of Philosophy|Ph.D.]] in [[Forestry]] in 1974. For his PhD, Moore researched heavy metal contamination in Rupert Inlet by [[mine tailings]]. He concluded that existing mechanisms had failed to prevent unacceptable pollution.<ref name="Moore1974">{{cite thesis |last=Moore |first=Patrick Albert |date=March 5, 1974 |title=Administration of pollution control in British Columbia: a focus on the mining industry |type=PhD |institution=[[University of British Columbia]] |url=https://open.library.ubc.ca/cIRcle/collections/ubctheses/831/items/1.0103866 |doi=10.14288/1.0103866}}</ref>
==Career==
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The [[Don't Make a Wave Committee]] (DMWC) was formed in January 1970 by [[Dorothy Stowe|Dorothy]] and [[Irving Stowe]], [[Ben Metcalfe]], Marie and [[Jim Bohlen]], Paul Cote, and [[Robert Hunter (journalist)|Bob Hunter]] and incorporated in October 1970.<ref>''Greenpeace: How a Group of Ecologists, Journalists, and Visionaries Changed the World'' by [[Rex Weyler]], {{ISBN|1-59486-106-4}} Published by Rodale Press in 2003, pages 59ff</ref> The committee had formed to plan opposition to the [[Cannikin|testing of a one megaton hydrogen bomb in 1969]] by the [[United States Atomic Energy Commission]] on [[Amchitka]] Island in the [[Aleutians]]. In 1971, Moore joined the committee as a member of the crew of the ''Greenpeace'', a chartered fishing boat originally named the ''[[Phyllis Cormack]]'' which the Committee sent across the North Pacific to draw attention to the US testing of a 5 megaton bomb planned for September of that year.<ref>Weyler, Rex. [https://www.utne.com/community/wavesofcompassion "Waves of Compassion"]. [[Utne Reader]]. Retrieved May 4, 2017.</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/patrick-moore-climate-doubter/|title=Snopes, FACT CHECK, Did Patrick Moore, a Doubter of Anthropogenic Climate Change, Co-Found Greenpeace?|date=March 12, 2019 }}</ref> As Greenpeace co-founder Bob Hunter wrote, "Moore was quickly accepted into the inner circle on the basis of his scientific background, his reputation [as an environmental activist], and his ability to inject practical, no-nonsense insights into the discussions."<ref>[[Robert Hunter (journalist)|Hunter, Robert]]. (1979) ''Warriors of the Rainbow: A Chronicle of the Greenpeace Movement''. Henry Holt & Company. {{ISBN|0-03-043741-5}} p9</ref> In May 1971, Moore travelled to Alaska with Jim Bohlen, representing the DMWC at US Atomic Energy Commission hearings.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Zelko, Frank |title=Scaling Greenpeace: From Local Activism to Global Governance |journal=Historical Social Research |date=2017 |volume=42 |issue=2 |pages=321–322 |doi=10.12759/hsr.42.2017.2.318-342 |publisher=GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences |issn=0172-6404 |quote=forcing the AEC to conduct a series of public hearings in Anchorage and Juneau in the last week of May 1971. Jim Bohlen and Patrick Moore, a young ecology graduate student at the University of British Columbia, represented the DMWC|jstor=44234964 }}</ref> Moore attended DMWC meetings, and was part of the committee when its name was changed to the Greenpeace Foundation. Other committee members included committee founders Bob Hunter, Rod Marining and [[Ben and Dorothy Metcalfe|Ben Metcalfe]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greenpeace.org/international/about/history/founders|title=The Founders of Greenpeace|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050924150423/https://www.greenpeace.org/international/about/history/founders|archive-date=September 24, 2005|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greenpeace.org/international/about/history/founders/first-rainbow-warriors|title=A chat with the first Rainbow Warriors|access-date=May 7, 2009|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090507161303/http://www.greenpeace.org/international/about/history/founders/first-rainbow-warriors|archive-date=May 7, 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> Moore describes himself as a founding member of Greenpeace,<ref>{{cite book|last=Moore|first=Patrick |date=2013|title=Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible Environmentalist|publisher= Beatty Street Publishing Inc.}}</ref> but the organization denies this claim.<ref name = "GP on PM"/>
Following US President [[Richard Nixon]]'s cancellation of the remaining hydrogen bomb tests planned for Amchitka Island in early 1972, Greenpeace turned its attention to French atmospheric nuclear testing at [[Mururoa]] Atoll in the South Pacific. In May 1972, Moore travelled to New York with [[Jim Bohlen]] and Marie Bohlen to lobby the key United Nations delegations from the [[Pacific Rim]] countries involved. Moore then went to Europe together with Ben Metcalfe, Dorothy Metcalfe, Lyle Thurston and Rod Marining where they received an audience with Pope Paul VI and protested at [[Notre
Moore again crewed the ''Phyllis Cormack'' in 1975 during the first campaign to save whales, as Greenpeace met the Soviet whaling fleet off the coast of California. During the confrontation, film footage was caught of the Soviet whaling boat firing a harpoon over the heads of Greenpeace members in a [[Zodiac Group|Zodiac]] inflatable and into the back of a female [[sperm whale]].<ref>DeLuca, Kevin Michael (2005) ''Image Politics: The New Rhetoric of Environmental Activism'' Routledge {{ISBN|0-8058-5848-2}} p99</ref> The film footage made the evening news the next day on all three US national networks, initiating Greenpeace's debut on the world media stage, and prompting a swift rise in public support of the charity.<ref>[http://www.greenpeace.org/international/about/history/moruroa-journey-into-the-bomb ''Moruroa: Journey into the bomb''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090508103003/http://www.greenpeace.org/international/about/history/moruroa-journey-into-the-bomb |date=May 8, 2009 }}; Greenpeace.org; April 27, 2005</ref> Patrick Moore and Bob Hunter appeared on Dr. [[Bill Wattenburg]]'s talk radio show on [[KGO (AM)|KGO]] and appealed for a lawyer to help them incorporate a branch office in San Francisco and to manage donations. David Tussman, a young lawyer, volunteered to help Moore, Hunter, and [[Paul Spong]] set up an office at [[Fort Mason]]. The Greenpeace Foundation of America (since changed to Greenpeace USA), then became the major fundraising center for the expansion of Greenpeace worldwide.<ref name=GPHistory>[http://www.greenpeace.org/international/about/history "The history of Greenpeace"]; Greenpeace.org; September 14, 2009</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/|title=Greenpeace USA|website=www.greenpeace.org}}</ref>
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He argues that any realistic plan to reduce reliance on [[fossil fuels]] or [[greenhouse gas emissions]] would require increased use of nuclear energy to supply [[baseload]] power.<ref name=wapo/><ref name="GreenpeaceWrong" /> He has also criticized the costs and reliability of [[wind farm]]s.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wind farms blasted |author=BOB BOUGHNER |url=https://lfpress.com/news/london/2012/01/05/19203361.html |newspaper=[[London Free Press]] |date=January 5, 2012 |access-date=June 5, 2012 |archive-date=June 22, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120622001029/http://www.lfpress.com/news/london/2012/01/05/19203361.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
===Global climate change
In 2006, he disagreed with the [[scientific consensus on climate change]] in a letter to the [[Royal Society]], arguing there was "no scientific proof" that mankind was causing global climate change<ref>{{cite web|url=http://greenspiritstrategies.com/royal-society-release/#more-551|title=Royal Society Release}}</ref> and believes that it "has a much better correlation with changes in solar activity than {{CO2}} levels".<ref name="newsletter.co.uk">{{cite web|url=http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/local/wilson_voices_doubts_over_climate_change_1_1874981 |title=Wilson voices doubts over climate change - Belfast Newsletter |publisher=Newsletter.co.uk |date=September 5, 2008 |access-date=October 18, 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019210707/http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/regional/wilson-voices-doubts-over-climate-change-1-1874981|archive-date=October 19, 2013}}</ref> He has
Nikki |last=Forrester |title=Scientific studies established clear links between human-caused increased in atmospheric CO2 and global warming |url=https:// Moore has stated that global climate change and the melting of glaciers is not necessarily a negative event because it creates more [[arable land]] and the use of forest products drives up demand for wood and spurs the planting of more trees.<ref name="honolulu">{{cite web |url=http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2006/Jan/13/bz/FP601130327.html |title=Greenpeace co-founder praises global warming |last=Hao |first=Sean |date=January 13, 2006 |work=Honolulu Advertiser |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060207170119/http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=%2F20060113%2FBUSINESS11%2F601130327%2F1071 |archive-date=February 7, 2006 |url-status=dead }}</ref> Rather than [[climate change mitigation]], Moore advocates [[adaptation to global warming]].<ref name="MassiveChange"/> This, too, is contrary to the general scientific consensus, which expects climate change to lead to some irreversible impacts.<ref name="IPCC_4th"/>
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The writer and environmental activist [[George Monbiot]] has written critically of Moore's work with the Indonesian logging firm [[Asia Pulp & Paper]] (APP). Moore was hired as a consultant to write an environmental 'inspection report' on APP operations. According to Monbiot, Moore's company is not a monitoring firm and the consultants used were experts in public relations, not tropical ecology or Indonesian law. Monbiot has said that sections of the report were directly copied from an APP PR brochure.<ref Name="APP"/><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asiapulppaper.com/portal/app_portal.nsf/Web-MenuPage/25789CB95E09B9F54725777C0023C42A/$FILE/Mazars.pdf|title=APP "Letter to Stakeholders"|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120515040801/http://www.asiapulppaper.com/portal/app_portal.nsf/Web-MenuPage/25789CB95E09B9F54725777C0023C42A/$FILE/Mazars.pdf|archive-date=May 15, 2012}}</ref>
The [[Nuclear Information and Resource Service]], an anti-nuclear group, criticized Moore, saying that his comment in 1976 that "it should be remembered that there are employed in the nuclear industry some very high-powered public relations organizations. One can no more trust them to tell the truth about nuclear power than about which brand of toothpaste will result in this apparently insoluble problem" was seen as forecasting his own future.<ref name="nirs.org">{{cite web|url=http://www.nirs.org/falsepromises.pdf|title=False Promises: Debunking Nuclear Industry Propaganda}}</ref> A ''[[Columbia Journalism Review]]'' editorial criticizes the press for uncritically printing "pro-nuclear songs" such as Moore's, citing his role as a paid spokesperson of the nuclear industry.<ref name="nirs.org"/><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070824210500/http://cjrarchives.org/issues/2006/4/editorial.asp False Fronts: Why to look behind the label] editorial at ''Columbia Journalism Review'', 2006</ref>
During an interview by French investigative journalist [[Paul Moreira]], which was first broadcast on French television station [[Canal+ (French TV channel)|Canal+]], Moore was asked about the safety of the herbicide [[glyphosate]]. Moore told Moreira that one "could drink a whole quart of it" without any harm. When Moore was challenged to drink a glass of the weedkiller, he refused, saying "I'm not an idiot" and "I'm not stupid" before ending the interview. [[Monsanto]], the primary producers of glyphosate weedkillers under the [[Roundup (herbicide)|Roundup]] brand, denied claims that Moore is a paid lobbyist for their company.<ref>{{Citation |title=GMO Advocate Says Monsanto's Roundup Safe to Drink, Then Refuses Glass |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QWM_PgnoAtA|publisher=[[CBC News]] |access-date=2023-07-24 |language=en}}</ref><ref name="Monsanto-Lobbyist-Herbicide-Safe-to-Drink-Runs-Away-When-Offered-Some">{{cite web | url=http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2015/03/26/monsanto-lobbyist-herbicide-safe-to-drink-video_n_6949816.html? | title=Monsanto Lobbyist Says Herbicide Safe To Drink, Then Runs Away When Offered Some | publisher=TheHuffingtonPost.com, Inc | work=The Huffington Post Canada | date=March 26, 2015 | access-date=March 27, 2015 | author=Jancelewicz, Chris}}</ref><ref name="Watch-GMO-Advocate-Claim-Weed-Killer-Safe-to-Drink-but-Refuse-to-Drink">{{cite magazine | url=
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