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The Greening Earth Society, now defunct, was a public relations organization which denied the effects of climate change and the impacts of increased levels of carbon dioxide. The Society published the World Climate Report, a newsletter edited by Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute. [1] [2]
It was a non-profit organization created by the Western Fuels Association, [3] with which it shared an office and many staff members. [4] [5] [6] [ unreliable source? ] It has been called a "front group created by the coal industry" [7] [ full citation needed ] and an "industry front". [8] [ full citation needed ] Fred Palmer, a Society staffer, is a registered lobbyist for Peabody Energy, a coal company. [9]
Although the Greening Earth Society generally rejected the science of climate change, it acknowledged some degree of global warming as real: "Fact #1. The rate of global warming during the past several decades has been about 0.18°C per decade". [10] Note that the actual increase in the global surface temperature during the 100 years ending in 2005 was 0.74 ± 0.18 °C. [11]
