This Global Climate Coalition (GCC) news release announced the hiring of Gail Clements McDonald as the GCC’s Chief Executive Officer. 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. Clements McDonald was […]
This document is a 1997 statement from John Shlaes, the Executive Director of the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), regarding the “U.S. Draft Protocol Framework” released that day by the Clinton Administration. Shlaes urged the the Administration “to look before it leaps into an international agreement on global climate change,” stating that “the Administration has already […]
This 1996 Global Climate Coalition (GCC) News Release reported on comments made by GCC Executive DIrector, John Shlaes, at a climate conference in Switzerland. This News Release focused on Shale’s concerns regarding the exclusion of developing nations from potential carbon emission regulations. Shlaes argued that the bulk of future emissions will come from developing nations, […]
These documents reflect the Global Climate Coalition’s (GCC) aggressive attack on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) process – targeting Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s Dr. Ben Santer through a coordinated communications and media campaign. These documents were provided by Dr. Santer. The industry-funded GCC opposed greenhouse gas regulations through direct engagement and collaboration with […]
The Global Climate Coalition’s (GCC) Science and Technology Assessment Committee’s (STAC) June 1996 meeting minutes were submitted along with other GCC documents during discovery in Green Mtn. Chrysler Plymouth Dodge Jeep v. Crombie and Central Valley Chrysler-Jeep, Inc. v. Witherspoon. In the minutes, the GCC’s mission to monitor and critique domestic and international climate negotiations […]
This document is the Global Climate Coalition’s (GCC) 1995 March/April Climate Watch Bulletin. The bulletins generally updated readers on climate change policy and science developments. The bulletins were a part of GCC’s larger mission to oppose greenhouse gas regulations and contest the scientific validity of anthropogenic climate change through direct engagement and collaboration with affiliated […]
This document is a 1994 speech delivered to the US-Austria Conference On Joint Implementation by John Shlaes, Executive Director of the industry-funded Global Climate Coalition. The speech titled, Opportunities for International Cooperation to Mitigate Emissions of Greenhouse Gases, focused on the benefits of joint implementation (JI), a program Shlaes called “a long term win-win solution […]
This document is a May 27, 1994 letter addressed “Dear Journalist” from John Shlaes, the Global Climate Coalition’s Executive Director, promoting the release of a commissioned report. Attached to this document is a sheet titled, “Highlights of the GCC Issues and Options Report on Potential Global Climate Change” (the report itself is not included). The […]
This document is the Global Climate Coalition’s (GCC) May 1994 Climate Watch Bulletin (Volume 2 Issue 5). The GCC bulletins were a part of the group’s larger mission to oppose greenhouse gas regulations and contest the scientific validity of anthropogenic climate change through direct engagement and collaboration with affiliated climate deniers. Its membership spanned across […]
This document is the Global Climate Coalition’s (GCC) April 1994 Climate Watch Bulletin (Volume 2 Issue 4). The bulletins were a part of GCC’s larger mission to oppose greenhouse gas regulations and contest the scientific validity of anthropogenic climate change through direct engagement and collaboration with affiliated climate deniers. Its membership spanned across the automotive, […]