Environmentalists often bristle when charged with being addicted to gloom-and-doom messages, but every now and then an environmental group will confirm the stereotype. In April 2006,Greenpeace mistakenly posted an incomplete draft press release on its Website that read: âIn the twenty years since the Chernobyl tragedy, the world’s worst nuclear accident, there have nearly [FILL IN ALARMIST AND ARMAGEDDONIST FACTOID HERE].â
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Alan Oxley reports that the conservation group World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has for years been playing fast and loose with the facts.
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Some examples:
A WWF report was the source of an insupportable claim that glaciers in the Himalayas were melting rapidly was embarrassing for the organization.