Texto de referencia:
PBS Interview (2000) – http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/warming/debate/palmer.html
“I understand that people get uneasy over the concept of more CO2 going in the air, but you can’t live your life based on speculation … the precautionary principle might say that we should put more CO2 in the air to prevent CO2 levels from being driven down to such low levels in the future by an ice age that it extinguishes plant life. And there are scientists that believe this. So the precautionary principle is one way or it’s the other way, depending on how you want to view the thing. Therefore the precautionary principle–if you can’t identify a mechanism to say something good or bad is going to happen, you can only speculate–should not be the basis for setting policy.”
Ross Gelbspan (2005) – Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis–And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster – Basic Books – – ISBN-13: 978-0465027620 – 288 Págs. – Premio Pulitzer
“If O’Neill, who later resigned, was profoundly disappointed with the administration’s coal and oil-rich energy plan, Englehard, the CEO of Peabody Energy, was not. Peabody’s management was extremely cozy with the Cheney team. Its chief lobbyist, Fred Palmer, had, during the 1990s, headed the Western Fuels Association, a coal consortium that mounted relentless attacks on the findings of mainstream climate scientists.”
Ross Gelbspan (2005) – Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis–And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster – Basic Books – – ISBN-13: 978-0465027620 – 288 Págs. – Premio Pulitzer
“During the 1990s, that effort had been spearheaded by Fred Palmer who, around the time of the Bush election, was hired as chief lobbyist for Peabody Energy. Prior to his hiring by Peabody, Palmer headed up the Western Fuels Association, a $400-million coal consortium that had funded a tiny handful of industry-funded ‘greenhouse skeptics’ who had long been dismissed by the mainstream scientific community. Throughout the 1990s, Palmer directed an extensive and extremely successful public relations offensive funded by the coal industry that used such prominent ‘greenhouse skeptics’ as Fred Singer, Pat Michaels, Sherwood Idso, and Robert Balling, among others.”
Greening Earth Society – Wikipedia, 05/12/2009 – Wikipedia – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greening_Earth_Society
“The Greening Earth Society, now defunct, was a public relations organization which promoted the idea that there is considerable scientific doubt about the effects of climate change and increased levels of carbon dioxide. The Society published the World Climate Report, a newsletter edited by Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute. It was a non-profit organization created by the Western Fuels Association, with which it shared an office and many staff members. It has been called a «front group created by the coal industry» and an «industry front». Fred Palmer, a Society staffer, is a registered lobbyist for Peabody Energy, a coal company.”
Eric Pooley (2010) – The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth – Hyperion – Deputy editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek, a former managing editor of Fortune and a former national editor, chief political correspondent and White House correspondent for Time – ISBN-13: 978-1401323264 – 481 Págs. – http://www.ericpooley.com/
“After all, CO2 was ‘a benign gas required for life on Earth’, as Western Fuels executive Fred Palmer liked to say, and ‘an amazingly effective aerial fertilizer’ … ‘Every time you turn your car on and you burn fossil fuels and you put CO2 in the air,’ Palmer said ‘you’re doing the work of the Lord’.» Palmer, an Arizonan with sparkling, ice blue eyes, was among the coal industry’s oldest voices on the global warming issue. ‘Someone had to speak in defense of coal-fired electricity,’ wrote Ned Leonard, who worked for Palmer … [Palmer] argued that … there might be ‘some mild warming, which is nothing to be concerned about at all,’ but anything more than that was just speculation, and ‘you can’t live your life based on speculation.’.”
Eric Pooley (2010) – The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth – Hyperion – Deputy editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek, a former managing editor of Fortune and a former national editor, chief political correspondent and White House correspondent for Time – ISBN-13: 978-1401323264 – 481 Págs. – http://www.ericpooley.com/
“The Hell No Choir—’people like Fred Palmer of Peabody Energy, the nation’s biggest coal producer—-thought that was crazy talk. Palmer had founded the pro-CO2 Greening Earth Society in I998 to convince people that burning fossil fuels is “doing the work of the Lord.” Now he was show- ing signs of crab-walking back from that position, but he wasn’t anywhere close to Rogers and never would be.”
Eric Pooley (2010) – The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth – Hyperion – Deputy editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek, a former managing editor of Fortune and a former national editor, chief political correspondent and White House correspondent for Time – ISBN-13: 978-1401323264 – 481 Págs. – http://www.ericpooley.com/
“In 1992, a group of coal and railroad men led by John Snow, president and CEO of the rail-and-shipping giant CSX Corporation (and later one of George W. Bush’s treasury secretaries), launched a new organization to speak up for coal … You wouldn’t have known it from the name, but the Center for Energy and Economic Development (CEED), the industry’s principal experiment in self-preservation, a group frankly dedicated to ‘protecting the viability of coal-based electricity’ … The man charged with executing the strategy … named Stephen L. Miller .. When it came to climate science, there was little to distinguish Miller’s operation from the pro-CO2 preachings of Fred Palmer’s Greening Earth Society. Miller’s group disputed the science of climate change, praised carbon dioxide as ‘Earth’s basic building block,’ and inveighed against Kyoto. It promoted the discredit Oregon Petition and its ‘17,000 leading U.S. scientists’ who believed that ‘credible scientific evidence does not exist.’ … Between 2002 and 2005, CEED’s office suite at 333 John Carlyle Street in Alexandria was also home to the Greening Earth Society.”
Eric Pooley (2010) – The Climate War: True Believers, Power Brokers, and the Fight to Save the Earth – Hyperion – Deputy editor of Bloomberg BusinessWeek, a former managing editor of Fortune and a former national editor, chief political correspondent and White House correspondent for Time – ISBN-13: 978-1401323264 – 481 págs. – http://www.ericpooley.com/
“In 1992, a group of coal and railroad men led by John Snow, president and CEO of the rail-and-shipping giant CSX Corporation (and later one of George W. Bush’s treasury secretaries), launched a new organization to speak up for coal … You wouldn’t have known it from the name, but the Center for Energy and Economic Development (CEED), the industry’s principal experiment in self-preservation, a group frankly dedicated to ‘protecting the viability of coal-based electricity’ … The man charged with executing the strategy … named Stephen L. Miller .. When it came to climate science, there was little to distinguish Miller’s operation from the pro-CO2 preachings of Fred Palmer’s Greening Earth Society. Miller’s group disputed the science of climate change, praised carbon dioxide as ‘Earth’s basic building block,’ and inveighed against Kyoto. It promoted the discredit Oregon Petition and its ‘17,000 leading U.S. scientists’ who believed that ‘credible scientific evidence does not exist.’ … Between 2002 and 2005, CEED’s office suite at 333 John Carlyle Street in Alexandria was also home to the Greening Earth Society.”
Leo Hickman – Fred Palmer interview: ‘We’re 100% coal. More coal. Everywhere’ – The Guardian, 08/03/2011 – https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2011/mar/08/fred-palmer-peabody-coal-interview
“Fred Palmer is at the very heart of this story. Having worked in the US coal industry for more than 30 years, Palmer is the senior vice president of government relations at Peabody Energy, the world’s largest privately owned coal company which bases itself in St Louis, Missouri. Peabody – in large part through Palmer’s role as the company’s key lobbyist on Capitol Hill – is currently leading the energy sector’s attempts to neuter the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) efforts to curb carbon emissions in the US … During the 1990s, Palmer was a central figure in the coal industry’s funding of climate sceptic scientists through a now-defunct organisation called the Greening Earth Society. As the-then president of a coal advocacy group called Western Fuel Association, which funded the Greening Earth Society, he claimed in a 1997 documentary that whenever you «burn fossil fuels, and you put CO2 in the air, you are doing God’s work». ”
Leo Hickman – Fred Palmer interview: ‘We’re 100% coal. More coal. Everywhere’ – The Guardian, 08/03/2011 – https://www.theguardian.com/environment/blog/2011/mar/08/fred-palmer-peabody-coal-interview
“But Palmer says he is now focused on producing a «low-carbon coal future». As the new chairman of the London-based World Coal Association, and as a board member at FutureGen Alliance, a $1.3bn project in Illinois which aims to build a commercial CCS facility, Palmer recently told me in a wide-ranging interview that the global coal industry is working hard to respond to the «worldwide concern over carbon»…”
Frederick D. Palmer – The Heartland Institute, 19/09/2020 – https://www.heartland.org/about-us/who-we-are/frederick-d-palmer
“Prior to joining Peabody Energy, Palmer served for five years as General Counsel and 15 years as chief executive officer of Western Fuels Association, Inc. While at Western Fuels, Palmer served on the Board of Directors of the National Mining Association and in that capacity served as chair of the NMA Legal Committee with a focus on coal and climate policies during the Clinton/Gore years in the 1990s. Palmer began his career in 1969 in Washington, D.C., on the staff of Arizona Congressman Morris K. Udall, where he served for two years. He was a partner in Duncan, Brown, Weinberg & Palmer, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm, for eight years where he specialized in utility, environmental, and resource law. … During his service to Peabody Energy, he was Peabody’s representative on the Board of Directors of the World Coal Association and served as its chairman from November 2010 to November 2012. He also represented Peabody on the Board of the FutureGen Alliance from its formation until June 2015. Additionally, he is a member of the California and D.C. Bar Associations. ”
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