Climate Front Group Ignored Its Own Scientists [1]
Submitted by Bob Burton [2] on
An internal document [3] (pdf) of the Global Climate Coalition [4] (GCC) -- an industry front group [5] that disbanded in 2002 -- reveals that when the group chose to promote doubt about the reality of global warming [6] it was ignoring the views of its own scientific advisers. In a backgrounder distributed to members of Congress and journalists in the 1990s, the GCC stated that “the role of greenhouse gases in climate change is not well understood," though it added the qualifier that scientists disagreed on the issue. However, an internal document obtained as part of a court action against the automobile industry indicates that the GCC's advisers disagreed [7]. '“The scientific basis for the Greenhouse Effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well established and cannot be denied,” they wrote.