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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
This November 1997 memo to the Global Climate Coalition’s (GCC) “Coordinating Council Participants and State Leaders” was sent by former lobbyist Susan Moya regarding coordination of an astroturf campaign. 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, […]
These advertisements were placed in the Washington Post and New York Times in 1997 during the negotiation process of the December meeting of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change which would result in the Kyoto Protocol. A set of New York Times ads were preserved on PolluterWatch several years ago. The industry-funded Global Climate […]
The 1997 “Status Report” summarized key agenda items for the Association of International Automobile Manufacturers (AIAM), noting the group’s progress on emissions mandates, harmonizing “international safety and emission standards,” and its membership status in the Global Climate Coalition (GCC). It was submitted during discovery in Green Mtn. Chrysler Plymouth Dodge Jeep v. Crombie and Central […]
This document is the Global Climate Coalition’s (GCC) September 1997 Climate Watch Brief (Volume 5 Issue 3). 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, […]
This document is the Global Climate Coalition’s (GCC) Fall 1997 Climate Watch Brief (Volume 5 Issue 4). 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, […]