Global warming - follow the money?

Question

In view of the fact that global warming is a hot topic that grabs people's attentions and is a cause of worry for many, I wondered how it had affected the fund-raising efforts of those groups that lobby our elected politicians on the matter, and who provide the IPCC with so many of their findings. 

So, to take two of the main organisations. First the WWF:

2003 $370,245,000
2004 $468,889,000
2005 $499,629,000
2006 $549,827,000
2007 $663,193,000                  
2008 $584,000,000                  

A total of just over $3.1 BILLION dollars. Their accounts also reveal that in, for example, 2008, a total of $108,856,000 was received from ‘Governments and Aid Agencies’ (i.e. just over one hundred million dollars - ker-ching!).
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Secondly, Greenpeace - please note the switch from dollars to euros as of 1998.

1994 $137,358,000 
1995 $152,805,000 
1996 $139,895,000 
1997 $125,648,000 
1998 €110,833,000
1999 €126,023,000
2000 €143,646,000
2001 €157,730,000
2005 €173,464,000
2006 €171,367,000
2007 €204,982,000
2008 €196,620,000

A total of around $2.37 BILLION dollars (depending on exchange rates).
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I'm sure we've all seen the Greenpeace adverts with the cute polar bears telling everyone how they need our help to save the polar bear from global warming. But do they really need over $2 billion dollars to do that? Does the WWF really need over $3 billions dollars for studies into effects of global warming on the Amazon rainforest?

Or is this a case of "follow the money"?
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Ottawa Mike · Accepted Answer

Ironically, environmental activism is the new big industry. And you haven't even included government global warming research funding.  It has to be over $2B per year just in the US alone.

antarcticice · Answer

Yes, lets follow the money
Meadows WWF income figure 2008 $584,000,000
The real 2008 figure $152,319,942
http://www.worldwildlife.org/who/financialinfo/WWFBinaryitem11375.pdf

Compared to a group that opposes climate change Exxon who's last profit was 45 Billion or ~123 million a day.

Which ignores (something Meadow is quite good at) that most of WWFs work and spending is related to animals not climate change.

All Black · Answer

antarcticice makes a good point - what is the source of all your figures?
On the other hand Exxon is a supporter of an Emmissions Trading Scheme and have been funding warmist organisations for years. They are following the money too, having concluded they can make more money trading ficticious Carbon credits than they can make trading real oil.

Weise Ente · Answer

I followed the money where it really matters.  The scientists who collected the data aren't making large piles of money.  So how is the conspiracy paying them?

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