Greening Earth Society

The Greening Earth Society is a public relations organization which, through its published materials, 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 of the Cato Institute.

It is a non-profit organization created by the Western Fuels Association, [ [http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/08/14/BU70391.DTL "San Francisco Chronicle"] ] with which it shares an office and many staff members. [ [http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=88 Exxonsecrets: Greening Earth Society] ] It has been called a "front group created by the coal industry" [ [http://www.prwatch.org/taxonomy/term/103?from=110 PRWatch.org] ] and an "industry front". [ [http://archive.salon.com/books/review/2001/07/02/murray/index.html Salon.com] ] Fred Palmer, a Society staffer, is a registered lobbiest for Peabody Energy, a coal company. [ [http://sopr.senate.gov/cgi-win/m_opr_viewer.exe?DoFn=3 U.S. Lobby Registration and Disclosure Page] ]

Although the Greening Earth Society is generally skeptical of climate change, it appears to endorse some degree of global warming as real: "Fact #1. The rate of global warming during the past several decades has been about 0.18ºC per decade". [ [http://www.greeningearthsociety.org/wca/2004/wca_19d.html Greening Earth Society] ] However, this statement understates actual warming by a factor of about two, according to a report in the Journal of Climate which claims Earth has been warming at 0.25 °C per decade since 1979. [ cite journal| last = Smith | first = Thomas M. | coauthors= Reynolds, Richard W. | title = A Global Merged Land–Air–Sea Surface Temperature Reconstruction Based on Historical Observations (1880–1997) | journal = Journal of Climate |volume = 18 |issue = 12 | issn = 0894-8755 | pages = 2021–2036 | url = http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/oa/climate/research/Smith-Reynolds-dataset-2005.pdf | format = PDF | date = 2005-05-15 | accessdate = 2007-03-14 | doi = 10.1175/JCLI3362.1]

The Greening Earth Society promulgates the idea that there is considerable disagreement (or doubt) in the scientific community regarding the scientific consensus on global warming.

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* http://www.greeningearthsociety.org