Summary 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 […]
Summary This document is a February 27th, 1997 News Release from the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) covering a report by the Charles River Associates titled, “World Economic Impacts of US Commitment to Medium Term Carbon Emission Limits.” According to the release, the report found that, “a large number of developing nations will suffer significant economic […]
Summary In the fall of 1996, Lee R. Raymond Chairman, Exxon Corporation, had an article published in the oil company’s publication, The Lamp. The title of the article was, “Climate change: don’t ignore the facts.” Raymond wrote, “Proponents of the global warming theory say that higher levels of greenhouse gases — especially carbon dioxide — are […]
Summary 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 […]
Summary This Global Climate Coalition (GCC) document titled “Economic and Employment Impacts from Proposed Greenhouse Gas Emissions Restrictions” argued against proposed carbon emission reduction plans. 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 […]
Summary This Global Climate Coalition (GCC) document covered the organization’s position on three categories related to climate change: “The Science,” “The Economics,” and “The Politics.” Challenging climate change science, the document attacks climate models. It also cites climate denier John Christy’s as providing evidence of a “cooling trend, not warming” of global temperatures. In addition […]
Summary 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 […]
Summary In May 1996, the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) released the following report, titled “A Review of Economic Impacts of AOSIS-Type Proposals to Limit Carbon Dioxide Emissions.” This report supported GCC’s repeated assertions that action on climate change would have deleterious effects on the global economy. The industry-funded GCC opposed greenhouse gas regulations through direct […]
Summary This document is the Global Climate Coalition’s (GCC) Climate Watch Brief (Volume 5 Issue 1). The briefs 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, utility, […]
Summary “Predicting Future Climate Change: A Primer” is a draft document from the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), dated December 1995. This document and others were submitted during discovery in Green Mtn. Chrysler Plymouth Dodge Jeep v. Crombie and Central Valley Chrysler-Jeep, Inc. v. Witherspoon. Covered in part by The New York Times in 2009, the […]