This 1995 document is a memorandum from the Global Climate Coalition’s media representative, Jane Agate, to “Editors and Environmental Reporters.” The GCC was a industry-funded organization which 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 […]
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 testimony by Patrick Michaels, then Senior Fellow of Environmental studies at the Cato Institute, was used as expert opinion by Western Fuels Association (“WFA”) before the Minnesota Public Utilities Commission. The hearing was in St. Paul, Minnesota to determine the environmental cost of coal burning power plants in the state. Richard Lindzen, Robert Balling, […]
This document is the Global Climate Coalition’s (GCC) 1995 May/June Climate Watch Bulletin (Volume 3 Issue 3). 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, […]
This document is a part of a larger collection discovered by Jelmer Mommers of De Correspondent in a trove of internal Royal Dutch/Shell Group (“Shell”) documents. Interested in more Shell documents? Full index here.
This document, a part of a larger collection discovered by Jelmer Mommers of De Correspondent in a trove of internal Royal Dutch/Shell Group (“Shell”) documents, is a principally Dutch publication dealing with fossil fuel consumption and climate change. Interested in more Shell documents? Full index of this trove here.
The Global Climate Coalition’s (GCC) 1995 March/April Climate Watch Bulletin was 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, manufacturing, petroleum, and mining industries. GCC bulletins generally […]
This 1995 document from Imperial Oil, Exxon’s Canadian subsidiary, is a letter from Robert Peterson, Imperial’s Chairman and CEO, to then-Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chretien, regarding the first meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. In the letter, Peterson frames the Framework Convention on Climate Change to be “as much, or […]
This Global Climate Coalition (GCC) Internal Revenue Service (IRS) Form 1024, and supporting documents, reflects the GCC’s application to be considered a tax-exempt 501(c)(6). The attachments include a cover letter from the IRS, IRS Form 8718, IRS Form 2848, a list of GCC’s Board of Directors and Officers, statements of yearly revenues and expenses, a […]
From the private collection of Nicky Sundt, a Washington-based climate change science, policy and communications expert, this 1995 pre-publication draft report and its corresponding attachments were prepared by Accu-Weather, Inc. for the Global Climate Coalition (GCC). The report, titled “Changing Weather? Facts and Fallacies about Climate Change,” emphasized uncertainty in climate change science while promoting […]