Category Archives: Global Climate Coalition Collection

1993 GCC Emission Reduction News Release

This 1993 Global Climate Coalition (GCC) document is a letter from Executive Director John Shlaes. The GCC was an industry-funded organization that 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 letter was likely […]

1993 GCC Climate Watch Bulletin Vol. 1 Issue 8

This document is the Global Climate Coalition’s (GCC) July/August 1993 Climate Watch Bulletin (Volume 1 Issue 8). 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, […]

1993 GCC White House Chief of Staff Letter

This document is a July 19, 1993 letter from John Shlaes, Executive Director of the Global Climate Coalition (GCC), to Thomas F. McLarty, the Chief of Staff to the President. The letter was cc’d to the Interagency Climate Change Mitigation Group and the Interagency Analysis Team. The GCC opposed greenhouse gas regulations through direct engagement […]

1993 GCC National Action Plan Letter to DOE

This document is a July 8, 1993 letter from John Shlaes, Executive Director of the Global Climate Coalition, to Abe Haspel, the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Economic and Environmental Policy at the Department of Energy. The industry-funded GCC opposed greenhouse gas regulations through direct engagement and collaboration with affiliated climate deniers from 1989 to 2002. […]

1993 GCC Patrick Michaels “Benign Greenhouse” News Release

This Global Climate Coalition (GCC) document is a letter from GCC Executive Director John Shlaes to journalists in response to a Washington Post article, in which climate denier Patrick Michaels and climate scientist James Hansen were interviewed about their views regarding natural warming and computer modeling.  The industry-funded GCC opposed greenhouse gas regulations through direct […]

1993 GCC Climate Watch Bulletin Vol. 1 Issue 7

This document is the Global Climate Coalition’s (GCC) June 1993 Climate Watch Bulletin (Volume 1 Issue 7). 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, […]

1993 GCC Response to Clinton Earth Day Pledge News Release and Attachments

This Global Climate Coalition (GCC) letter to reporters attacked, at the time, recent national discussions concerning the regulation of greenhouse gases. 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 uses […]

1993 GCC Climate Watch Bulletin Vol. 1 Issue 6

This document is the Global Climate Coalition’s (GCC) May 1993 Climate Watch Bulletin (Volume 1 Issue 6). 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, […]

1993 GCC Media Hits

These press clippings were preserved by the Global Climate Coalition (GCC). 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 first article, “Satellite vs. Surface: Two Points of View on Global […]

1993 GCC Climate Watch Bulletin Vol. 1 Issue 5

This document is the Global Climate Coalition’s (GCC) April 1993 Climate Watch Bulletin (Volume 1 Issue 5). 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, […]