Greening Earth Society
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The Greening Earth Society is a public relations organization founded, funded, and controlled by the Western Fuels Association, an alliance of coal-burning utility companies. Through its published materials, the Society promotes the idea that there is considerable scientific doubt about the climate-warming effect of carbon dioxide. The Society publishes the World Climate Report, a newsletter edited by Patrick Michaels.
Although the Greening Earth Society is generally regarded as a skeptic of climate change, it appears to endorse the orthodox interpretation of the size of recent temperature trends: "Fact #1. The rate of global warming during the past several decades has been about 0.18ºC per decade" [1] (http://www.greeningearthsociety.org/wca/2004/wca_19d.html).
Criticism
The Greening Earth Society promulgates the idea that there is considerable disagreement (or doubt) in the scientific community regarding anthropogenic climate change. Contrary to the claims made by the Greening Earth Society, the scientific community appears to be in consensus. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the American Meteorological Society, the American Geophysical Union, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) have all concluded that the evidence for human modification of climate is compelling. Moreover, a study of the scientific literature found that 75% of the climate-related papers published between 1993 and 2003 supported the position of human-induced climate change while 25% of the papers took no position at all. [2] (http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/306/5702/1686)
External link
- http://www.greeningearthsociety.org
- Disinfopedia page (http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Greening_Earth_Society)