Greening Earth Society

The Greening Earth Society, now defunct, was a public relations organization which denied the effects of climate change and the impacts of increased levels of carbon dioxide. The Society published the World Climate Report, a newsletter edited by Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute.

It was a non-profit organization created by the Western Fuels Association,[1] with which it shared an office and many staff members.[2][3][4] It has been called a "front group created by the coal industry"[5] and an "industry front".[6] Fred Palmer, a Society staffer, is a registered lobbyist for Peabody Energy, a coal company.[7]

Although the Greening Earth Society generally rejected the science of climate change, it acknowledged some degree of global warming as real: "Fact #1. The rate of global warming during the past several decades has been about 0.18°C per decade".[8] Note that the actual increase in the global surface temperature during the 100 years ending in 2005 was 0.74 ± 0.18 °C.[9]

References
  1. San Francisco Chronicle
  2. "Global Warming Skeptic Organizations". Archived from the original on March 11, 2010.
  3. http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/global_warming_contrarians/global-warming-skeptic.html Archived March 11, 2010, at the Wayback Machine
  4. Exxonsecrets: Greening Earth Society
  5. PRWatch.org
  6. Salon.com Archived 2009-04-22 at the Wayback Machine
  7. U.S. Lobby Registration and Disclosure Page
  8. Greening Earth Society
  9. "Summary for Policymakers" (PDF). Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. 2007-02-05. Retrieved 2007-02-02. The updated hundred-year linear trend (1906 to 2005) of 0.74 °C [0.56 °C to 0.92 °C] is therefore larger than the corresponding trend for 1901 to 2000 given in the TAR of 0.6 °C [0.4 °C to 0.8 °C].


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