Liberal
billionaire George Soros gave former Vice President Al Gore’s
environmental group millions of dollars over three years to create a
“political space for aggressive U.S. action” on global warming, according to
leaked documents.
A
document published by DC Leaks shows Soros, a Hungarian-born liberal financier,
wanted his nonprofit Open Society Institute (OSI) to do more to support global
warming policies in the U.S. That included budgeting $10 million in annual
support to Gore’s climate group over three years.
“U.S.
Programs Global Warming Grants U.S. Programs became engaged on the global
warming issue about four years ago, at George Soros’s suggestion,” reads a
leaked OSI memo.
“There has been a budget of $11 million for global warming
grants in the U.S. Programs budget for the last several years,” the memo reads.
“This budget item captures George Soros’s commitment of $10 million per year
for three years to Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, which conducts
public education on the climate issue in pursuit of creating political space
for aggressive U.S. action in line with what scientists say is necessary to put
our nation on a path to reducing its outsize carbon dioxide emissions.”
It’s
unclear what year the memo was sent, but the Gore co-founded Alliance for
Climate Protection (ACP) was established in 2006 and lasted until it became The Climate Reality Project in
July 2011. In 2008, the Alliance launched a $300 million campaign to encourage
“Americans to push for aggressive reductions in greenhouse gas
emissions,” The Washington Post reported.
ACP
got $10 million from the Open Society Institute (OSI) in 2008, according to the
nonprofit’s tax filings. OSI handed over another $5 million to ACP in 2009,
according to tax filings. The investigative reporting group ProPublica keeps a database that has OSI tax returns from
2000 to 2013. TheDCNF could not find other years where OSI gave money to ACP.
OSI
is primarily a grant-making nonprofit that hands out millions of dollars every
year to mostly left-wing causes. Now called the Open Society Foundations,
Soros’s nonprofit has handed out more than $13 billion over the
last three decades.
OSI
didn’t only plan to fund Gore’s climate group to promote global warming
policies in the U.S., OSI also planned on giving millions of dollars to spur
the “youth climate movement.”
“This
budget item also allows for the renewal of U.S. Programs’ long-standing support
of the Energy Action Coalition, which is the lead organizer of the youth
climate movement in the U.S., the memo reads.
“We
are also including a placeholder for an additional $2 million, pending
discussion about and development of OSI’s global warming agenda,” the memo
reads. “There is a memo from Nancy Youman in the strategic plans binder that
recommends pathways forward for OSI on the climate issue – in the U.S., as well
as in other parts of the Open Society Network.”
