Yep.<\/p>\n
For anyone unaware of it, the story of the WikiLeaks organization’s dumping of John Podesta’s emails<\/a> is a trendy topic lately. Similar to how I searched the ClimateGate email dump<\/a> for Ross Gelbspan’s name and others, I initially scanned through this dump, with no results. That is, until the LeftExposed site came out with a 10\/26\/16 report<\/a> on how the name “Fenton Communications” is found in Podesta emails. Fenton is a name I’ve tagged for several posts<\/a> here, but I hadn’t thought to drop it into a Podesta search.<\/p>\n However, it’s a name I associate not only with David Fenton, a Friend of Gelbspan’s<\/a> for likely obvious reasons<\/a>, but also with Kalee Kreider – hold that thought for a few moments. So when I simply dropped the one word “Kalee” into the search, it turned up a short email she sent directly to Podesta<\/a>:<\/p>\n Date: 2014-07-23 13:42 Dear John,<\/p>\n Confidentially<\/span>, I just spent a half day at the UN has part of my work with the UN Foundation on the Climate Summit. Aside<\/strong>: Kalee Kreider, for those newer readers now arriving at this blog, is one of the people at what I term the epicenter<\/a> of the smear of skeptic climate scientists, she was the long-time spokesperson for Al Gore who worked at Fenton Communications not only before she worked for Gore, as she only<\/em><\/strong> discloses here<\/a>, (full LinkedIn resum\u00e9 text here<\/a>) but also after she worked for Gore<\/em><\/strong>, which we are told about here<\/a> (full text A search of her gmail address — which is now not<\/strong> a breach of any privacy on my part — seen in the July 2014 Podesta email turns up a phone number that she’s used from the time when she is seen in an online 2009 press release as the media contact for Gore<\/a>, (full text here<\/a>) and in an online December 2012 Rockefeller Foundation press release naming her as a media contact at Fenton Communications (bottom of the page<\/a>, full text here<\/a>) and also in a more recent September 2014 press announcement about the Clinton Global Initiative – in the version from the National Geographic<\/a>, she is noted as the media contact<\/a>, while the twin version at the Waitt Foundation<\/a> just says “contact<\/a>.”<\/p>\n What wider problem is possibly indicated from Kreider’s appearance in the Podesta emails? It is at the very least a bit troubling that her resum\u00e9 shows no employment of any kind between her departure<\/a> as Al Gore’s spokesperson in July 2012 to her own self-employment at Kreider Strategies, LLC starting in July 2013. But as clearly seen in the screencapture link two paragraphs above, she was hailed in her return to Fenton Communications in June 2012, and was also specifically noted to be in that position by the Rockefeller Foundation six months later. And Fenton is a direct topic in Podesta emails, albeit at this point, in February 2015<\/a> at the earliest. Given that Kreider has long associations with Fenton Communications, and is self described as “a consultant to several global non-governmental organizations<\/em>“, one question to ask is whether she did any consulting on what the above LeftExposed topic was about, namely the “Campaign Against Rupert Murdoch’s Climate Denialism” which in Wikileaks’ DOC file<\/a> closes out with the line<\/a> “Submitted December 1, 2014 by David Fenton<\/em>.”<\/p>\n Another question to ask is why her LinkedIn resum\u00e9 mentions only an association dating no later than 2006<\/a> to the United Nations Foundation, as opposed to the “part of my work with the UN Foundation on the Climate Summit<\/em>” she mentioned in the above 2014 Podesta email, or what are apparently more recent positions as “Special Adviser for Climate Science, United Nations Foundation<\/a>\u201d, and (as a person having no more than a BA History degree<\/a>), “the Science and Policy Advisor at the United Nations Foundation<\/a>.”<\/p>\n Kreider’s LinkedIn resum\u00e9 likely doesn’t include her much more recent United Nations work as the result of neglect. In my first September 2013 post<\/a> about her, I linked to a resum\u00e9 version of hers that now no longer functions<\/a>. The above screencapture links and the direct link to it is from a newer version<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n But the potentially central problem within the Podesta email above concerns the level Kreider is at, when John Podesta was Counselor to President Obama,<\/a> assisting him and the White House Chief of Staff with day-to-day management of White House staff operations …. along with duties that involved “overseeing climate change and energy policy<\/em><\/a>.\u201d Kreider was relaying concerns to Podesta from people at the United Nations who report straight to Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.<\/p>\n This is a problem because of what Kalee Kreider has to say<\/strong> on the topic of skeptic climate scientists. According Chicago Sun-Times<\/em> October 5, 2007 article writer Steve Huntley<\/a>, in reference to Kreider<\/a>,<\/p>\n A spokeswoman for Gore told me by e-mail that Heartland is an oil-company-funded group that denies that global warming is real<\/span> and caused by human activities. (sound familiar<\/a>?)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n That’s essentially the same thing Kreider said over 10 years earlier, not as Gore’s spokesperson, but as Communications Director<\/a> at Ozone Action (full text here<\/a>) – again, the place I call the epicenter of the ‘industry corrupted skeptic climate scientists’ accusation.<\/p>\n Dr. Singer has opposed the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change consensus document as have coal and oil interests.\u00a0 Dr. Singer is joined by: Dr. Robert Balling who has received over $300,000 from US fossil fuel interests<\/span>, British and German coal companies and the Kuwaiti government; and Dr. Patrick Michaels who has received at least $167,000 from fossil fuel interests<\/span> including the German Coal Mining Association.<\/p>\n Dr. Michaels and Balling were part of a public relations experiment in 1991 which purported to “reposition global warming as theory, not fact.<\/span>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n That later phrase is the infamous leaked memo phrase<\/a> which has every appearance of being the only so-called evidence<\/a> to support the accusation that fossil fuel companies paid skeptics to turn the certainty of man-caused global warming back into a “false theory.” One thing about that 1996 Ozone Action press release: it contains zero<\/strong> reference to Ross Gelbspan, the person that Kreider’s future boss said had discovered that phrase<\/a>. Not to worry, Kreider solved the problem a year later<\/a> when she was the Climate Campaign Director for Greenpeace (full text here<\/a> – and, lest anyone forget, Gelbspan never<\/strong> won a Pulitzer<\/a>):<\/p>\n PULITZER WINNER’S NEW BOOK DOCUMENTS OIL AND COAL INDUSTRY’S CAMPAIGN TO DERAIL GOVERNMENT ACTION ON CLIMATE CHANGE<\/p>\n \u2026 Gelbspan writes that a key component of this misinformation campaign has been the use of industry-funded scientists<\/span> in the media, government\u00a0 inquiries, and speaking tours. \u2026<\/p>\n \u2026 The book reveals that in 1991 a group of power utilities and coal companies\u00a0 hired a public relations firm, which then formed the “Information\u00a0 Council on the Environment.” The ICE’s stated aim was to “reposition\u00a0 global warming as theory rather than fact<\/span>.” \u2026<\/p>\n \u2026 FOR MORE INFORMATION:\u00a0 Kalee Kreider, Greenpeace USA …\u00a0 (the place I term “Greenpeace USA n\u00e9e Ozone Action<\/a>\u201d)<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n And as I pointed out at the end of my last blog post<\/a>, in a reply<\/a> to a 2015 Tweet about a ‘skeptic climate researcher linked to industry money’, Kreider thanked one of the first reporters who broke the news of Ozone Action’s revelations of so-called ‘industry-corrupted skeptic climate scientists, and Gelbspan as well.<\/p>\n From those bits ranging from 1996 to 2015, would there be any reason for Kreider to fail to mention that sort of thing to anybody<\/em> who will listen to it?<\/p>\n But the bigger question remains, how does a person with such a worthless one-trick pony accusation narrative like that achieve a position separated by only a degree or two from both the President of the United States and the UN Secretary-General?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15,35],"tags":[124,48],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4530"}],"version-history":[{"count":38,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16598,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4530\/revisions\/16598"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/gelbspanfiles.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nSubject: UN Summit and POTUS<\/p>\n
\nSome of the Secretary-General’s team are telling people that POTUS will attend the Summit.<\/span>
\nIt is beginning to build expectations.
\nI have not heard the same thing coming from your side. Just wanted to flag it for you as you are aware of all the moving pieces.
\nHope that this is helpful,
\nAll my best,
\nKalee<\/p><\/blockquote>\nhere<\/a><\/del>*<\/strong><\/span>) [*<\/strong>Author’s 12\/16\/16 addition<\/span>: click on that link, and you see its “not found” result now. It worked when I wrote this post, as seen in the screencapture photo link. A full text version of that page is also preserved in a prior format style at the Internet Archive site<\/a>.]<\/em><\/p>\n