Climate Files is organized by categories of documents and by keywords assigned to documents. Our Advanced Search page includes a drop-down feature showing all of the categories of documents so that you can more easily narrow your search. The topic field of our Advanced Search page also has a drop-down menu. You can try typing in a word to see if it corresponds with one of the tags assigned to a document. If you try a topic keyword and it doesn’t appear, try to see if a similar term that describes your document does appear.
In this segment of the Western Fuels Association’s (WFA) 1993 annual report, WFA recounts the beginning of its relationship with climate deniers including Patrick Michaels, Robert Balling and Fred Singer. It states that as part of a “first step” by WFA management, “scientists were found” who were “skeptical about much of what seemed generally accepted […]
This document is a Global Climate Coalition (GCC) brochure titled, “What The Experts Say About Global Climate Change.” The industry-funded GCC opposed greenhouse gas regulations through direct engagement and collaboration with affiliated climate deniers from 1989 to 2002. Its membership spanned across the automotive, utility, manufacturing, petroleum, and mining industries. The brochure is split into […]
This is an advertisement and schedule for a 1991 Cato Institute Conference titled “Global Environmental Crises: Science or Politics?”. The conference was a preemptive gathering before the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro. Cato worried the upcoming Rio conference was a sign of “marching toward a new world order […]
This is a 1990 CV for Patrick Michaels, a known climate skeptic with longstanding financial ties to the fossil fuel industry. Michaels has been an outspoken advocate for industry interests on issues relating to emissions regulation and climate change for decades – this CV documents some of his early connections with climate-denying organizations and fuel […]