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1998 AIAM Administration Meeting on Fuel Efficiency Standards

This 1998 document reflects a meeting between the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers’ (AIAM) members and a wide array of government officials regarding “the President’s Climate Change Budget, specifically the auto efficiency tax credit.” It was submitted during discovery in Green Mtn. Chrysler Plymouth Dodge Jeep v. Crombie and Central Valley Chrysler-Jeep, Inc. v. Witherspoon. […]

1998 GCC Climate Watch Brief Vol. 5 Issue 15

This document is the Global Climate Coalition’s (GCC) February 1998 Climate Watch Brief (Volume 5 Issue 15). 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, […]

1998 Shell Speech “Reflections on Kyoto” presented at Davos World Economic Forum

At the 1998 World Economic Forum, Royal Dutch/Shell Group’s (“Shell”) Chairman of the Committee of the Managing Directors, Cor Herkströter, delivered his “Reflections on Kyoto” to the attendees. A part of a larger group of documents unearthed by Jelmer Mommers of De Correspondent, this document marks an important time in Shell’s history as they reckoned […]

1998 GCC “Science Behind Climate Change is Uncertain” News Release

This 1998 Global Climate Coalition (GCC) news release reverberates GCC Board of Directors Chair Connie Holmes’ statement questioning the science of 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. […]

1998 (ca.) GCC Climate Change the Case Against Scientific Certainty

This document is a 1998  Global Climate Coalition (GCC) publication that attacked the Kyoto Protocol by challenging the scientific certainty that human activity contributes to climate change.  The document states: “While it is certain the Protocol would impose enormous burdens on America’s economy, there is no scientific certainty that human activity affects global climate. Scientists […]

GCC and Christy: “Is It Hotter Than Ever?” Backgrounder

This Global Climate Coalition “Backgrounder” promotes the work of climate denier John Christy. The 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. This document argues that “extreme events are ‘misleading’ as indicators of […]

1998 (ca.) GCC “Labor Voices on Kyoto”

In 1998, the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) released this document titled “Labor Voices on Kyoto.” 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. GCC used this document to highlight labor union […]

1998 GCC Kyoto Protocol Brochure

This document is a 1998 brochure published by the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), and distributed at the Sixth Conference of the Parties (COP) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). The GCC was an industry-funded organization that opposed greenhouse gas regulations through direct engagement and collaboration with affiliated climate deniers from 1989 […]

1998 GCC “Environmental Showdown”

This 1998 document from the Global Climate Coalition (GCC) addressed the Clinton Administration’s efforts to enact climate policy, specifically, the Kyoto Protocol. The document attacks what it called an “attempt to implement the Kyoto Protocol through the back door,” citing congressional opposition to the treaty. Key headlines include: “Congress and the Clinton Administration are preparing […]

1998 (ca.) GCC Climate Change Primer

This Global Climate Coalition (GCC) memo summarized the group’s perspective of “the global climate change debate” around 1998. 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. In an internal 1995 draft […]