Greening Earth Society
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The Greening Earth Society is a public relations organization which, through its published materials, promotes the idea that there is considerable scientific doubt about the climate-warming effect of carbon dioxide. The Society publishes the World Climate Report, a newsletter edited by Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute.
It is a non-profit organization created by the Western Fuels Association,[1] with which it shares an office and many staff members.[2] It has been called a "front group created by the coal industry"[3] and an "industry front".[4] Fred Palmer, a Society staffer, is a registered lobbiest for Peabody Energy, a coal company.[5]
Although the Greening Earth Society is generally skeptical of climate change, it appears to endorse some degree of global warming as real: "Fact #1. The rate of global warming during the past several decades has been about 0.18ºC per decade". [6] However, this apparently reasonable statement understates actual warming by a factor of about two. According to mainstream scientists, Earth has been warming at 0.25 °C per decade since 1979.[7]
The Greening Earth Society promulgates the idea that there is considerable disagreement (or doubt) in the scientific community regarding the scientific consensus on global warming.
[edit] References
- ^ San Francisco Chronicle
- ^ Exxonsecrets: Greening Earth Society
- ^ PRWatch.org
- ^ Salon.com
- ^ U.S. Lobby Registration and Disclosure Page
- ^ Greening Earth Society
- ^ Smith, Thomas M.; Reynolds, Richard W. (2005-05-15). "A Global Merged Land–Air–Sea Surface Temperature Reconstruction Based on Historical Observations (1880–1997)" (PDF). Journal of Climate 18 (12): 2021–2036. ISSN 0894-8755.
