Global Climate Coalition
The Global Climate Coalition was a group of mainly United States businesses opposing immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The group formed as a response to several reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A major scientific report on the severity of global warming by the IPCC in 2001 led to large-scale membership loss. Since 2002 the GCC has been dormant, or in its own words, "deactivated".
It says of itself:
- The Global Climate Coalition has been deactivated. The industry voice on climate change has served its purpose by contributing to a new national approach to global warming [1].
Benjamin D. Santer wrote:
- "The Global Climate Coalition - a less than disinterested party - has made serious allegations regarding the scientific integrity of the Lead Authors of Chapter 8, and of the IPCC process itself." (Source: E-mail correspondence between S. Fred Singer and Ben Santer)
Prominent Members
Links
- http://www.globalclimate.org/ - GCC homepage
- John Vidal, The Guardian, June 8, 2005, "Revealed: how oil giant influenced Bush: White House sought advice from Exxon on Kyoto stance"
- Bob May, The Guardian, 27 January 2005, "Under-informed, over here" [2]