Patrick Moore, one of the founders of Greenpeace, said in an email obtained by The Epoch Times that his reasons for leaving Greenpeace were very clear: "Greenpeace was 'hijacked' by the political left when they realized there was money and power in the environmental movement. [Left-leaning] political activists in North America and Europe changed Greenpeace from a science-based organization to a political fundraising organization," Moore said.

Moore left Greenpeace in 1986, 15 years after he co-founded the organization.

"The 'environmental' movement has become more of a political movement than an environmental movement," he said. "They are primarily focused on creating narratives, stories, that are designed to instill fear and guilt into the public so the public will send them money."

He said they mainly operate behind closed doors with other political operatives at the U.N., World Economic Forum, and so on, all of which are primarily political in nature.

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change [IPCC] is "not a science organization," he said. "It is a political organization composed of the World Meteorological Organization and the United Nations Environment Program.