Today from No Impact Man, is a damning indictment against the "Global Climate Coalition" - a group of businesses tied to the use of fossil fuels. Documents filed during a recent lawsuit show that the coalition knowingly lied about global warming through "an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead to global warming."
The document shows that their own scientists informed them that the science behind global warming was irrefutable as early as 1995.
“The scientific basis for the Greenhouse Effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well established and cannot be denied,” the experts wrote in an internal report compiled for the coalition in 1995.
The post references an April 23rd New York Times article by Andrew Revkin.
The Global Climate Coalition disbanded in 2002, but some of its like the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute continue to actively lobby against action on climate change. For the record, here's the complete list of coalition members. The bailout ridden auto sector is particularly well represented. If only they had been using those resources to build real products:
- Air Transport Association
- Allegheny Power
- Aluminum Association, Inc.
- American Automobile Manufacturers Association
- American Commercial Barge Line Co.
- American Farm Bureau Federation
- American Forest & Paper Association
- American Highway Users Alliance
- American Iron and Steel Institute
- American Petroleum Institute
- American Portland Cement Alliance
- Amoco
- Association of American Railroads
- Association of International Automobile Manufacturers
- Atlantic Richfield Coal Company
- Baker Refineries
- Bethlehem Steel
- BHP Minerals
- Chamber of Shipping of America
- Chemical Manufacturers Association
- Chevron
- Chrysler Corporation
- Cinergy
- CONRAIL
- Consumers Energy
- Council of Industrial Boiler Owners
- CSX Transportation, Inc.
- Cyprus-Amax
- Dow Chemical Company
- Drummond Company
- Duke Power Company
- DuPont
- Eastman Chemical
- Edison Electric Institute
- ELCON
- ExxonMobil
- Fertilizer Institute
- Ford Motor Company
- General Motors
- Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.
- Greencool
- Hoechst Celanese Chemical Group
- Illinois Power Company
- Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp.
- McDonnell-Douglas
- Mobil Corporation
- National Association of Manufacturers
- National Lime Association
- National Mining Association
- National Ocean Industries Association
- National Petrochemical and Refiners Association
- Natural Rural Electric Cooperative Association
- Norfolk Southern
- Northern Indiana Public Serv. Co.
- Ohio Edison
- Parker Drilling Company
- Process Gas Consumers
- Shell
- Society of the Plastic Industry
- Southern Company
- Steel Manufacturers Association
- TECO Energy Inc.
- Texaco
- U.S. Chamber of Commerce
- USX Corporation
- Union Carbide
- Union Pacific
- Virginia Power
- Western Fuels Association
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