Texto de referencia:
Jim Gordon – Have Media Warmed Up to Climate Change? – FAIR:Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, 01/11/1999 – http://www.fair.org/index.php?page=1478
“One industry spokesperson cited by MacGillis is Dr. Patrick Michaels of the University of Virginia. A leading skeptic of global warming often quoted in the press, he sits on the board of directors of the Greening Earth Society, a group financed by the coal industry’s Western Fuels Association, which asserts that continuing increases in carbon dioxide levels would enhance life on Earth.” “I can understand editors are trying to create balance. But they should quote legitimate scientists. There is some degree of laziness out there, that they don’t research who these scientists are and why they have contrary opinions,” said MacGillis. “A reporter is doing a disservice to readers by quoting industry-financed hacks.”
Terrence Joyce and Lloyd Keigwin (2003) – Are We on the Brink of a ‘New Little Ice Age?’ – Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 10/02/2003 – Senior Scientist, Physical Oceanography; Senior Scientist, Geology & Geophysics – http://www.whoi.edu/page.do?pid=12455&tid=282&cid=10046
“Indeed, some groups advocate the benefits of global warming, including the Greening Earth Society and the Subtropical Russia Movement. Some in the latter group even advocate active intervention to accelerate the process, seeing this as an opportunity to turn much of cold, austere northern Russia into a subtropical paradise.”
Andrew C. Revkin – Climate Debate Gets Its Icon: Mt. Kilimanjaro – The New York Times, 23/03/2004 – http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/23/science/earth/23CLIM.html
“Snow Fooling!: Mount Kilimanjaro’s glacier retreat is not related to global warming,” read a newsletter distributed on March 9 by the Greening Earth Society, a private group financed by industries dealing in fossil fuels … “Media and scientists blame human activity, but a 120-year-old natural climate shift is the cause.”.”
David Helvarg – An excerpt from The War Against the Greens takes a hard look at the Wise Use movement – Grist, 01/12/2004 – http://www.grist.org/article/helvarg/
“One of Wise Use’s major contributions to politics has been its deliberate distortion of language, the adaptation of green-sounding names as industry camouflage: the Environmental Conservation Organization (wetlands developers), Concerned Alaskans for Resources and the Environment (the timber industry), and the Greening Earth Society (coal-fired utilities arguing the benefits of global warming). Today, the administration’s anti-environmental legislation goes by names like “Healthy Forests” and “Clear Skies” … n the face of a scientific consensus that human-caused climate change is real and under way and will result in up to a 10 degree Fahrenheit warming and a two- to three-foot sea-level rise by the end of this century, the administration continues to follow the Wise Use path of denial and denigration … Henry David Thoreau once wrote, “Heaven is under our feet as well as over our heads. We need the tonic of wilderness.”.”
Union of Concerned Scientists – Global Warming Skeptic Organizations: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide & Global Change – Union of Concerned Scientists, 20/10/2005 – http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/global_warming_contrarians/global-warming-skeptic.html
“The Center is led by two brothers, Craig and Keith Idso. Their father, Sherwood Idso, is affiliated with the Greening Earth Society; the Center also shares a board member (Sylvan Wittwer) with GES. Both Idso brothers have been on the Western Fuels payroll at one time or another. Spin: Increased levels of CO2 will help plants, and that’s good. Funding: The Center is extremely secretive of its funding sources, stating that it is their policy not to divulge it funders. There is evidence for a strong connection to the Greening Earth Society (ergo Western Fuels Association). Affiliated Individuals: Craig Idso, Keith Idso, Sylvan Wittwer.”
Union of Concerned Scientists – Global Warming Skeptic Organizations: Greening Earth Society – Union of Concerned Scientists – 20/10/2005 – http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/global_warming_contrarians/global-warming-skeptic.html
“Spin: CO2 emissions are good for the planet; coal is the best energy source we have. Affiliated Individuals: Patrick Michaels, Robert Balling, David Wojick, Sallie Baliunas, Sylvan Wittwer, John Daley, Sherwood Idso. Funding: The Greening Earth Society receives its funding from the Western Fuels Association, which in turn receives its funding from its coal and utility company members.”
Carbon club – Wikipedia ,15/05/2008 – http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_Club
“En 1988, la Western Fuels Association a financé à hauteur de 250 000 dollars la réalisation d’une vidéo, The Greening of Planet Earth, qui contredit le point de vue « alarmiste » de la majorité de la communauté scientifique au sujet des causes et effets du réchauffement climatique. La théorie proposée dans cette vidéo est que le doublement des émissions de CO2 prévu au XXIe siècle augmentera la surface cultivable de 30 à 40%. Cette vidéo est distribuée par la Greening Earth Society, une association créée par la Western Fuels. Sherdwood Idso est le narrateur de cette vidéo. La Western Fuels Association a également lancé la revue World Climate Review, une tribune pour le point de vue des scientifiques ‘sceptiques‘. “
James Hoggan with Richard Littlemore (2009) – Climate Cover-up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming – Greystone Books – ISBN-13 : 978-1553654858 – 240 Págs.
“Parallel to the ICE operation, the Western Fuels Association also launched another ‘educational’ entity called ‘The Greening of Planet Earth, a 30-minute love note to carbon dioxide that is still available for viewing on You Tube. This became the first public appearance of a group of scientific experts made up of people like Sherwood Idso … The Western Fuels Association offered the video online in return for a small, tax-deducible donation to the Greening Earth Society, but it delivered hundreds of copies for free to public and university libraries across the country.” (p. 33)
Greening Earth Society – Wikipedia, 05/12/2009 – 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.”
Integrity in Science: [Robert] Balling – Center for Science in the Public Interest, 15/08/2010
“Director, Master of Advanced Study in Geographic Information System, Arizona State University, Phoenix. Received funding from fossil-fuel industry’s organizations that exceeded $679,000 from 1989 to 2002; served as science advisor to Greening Earth Society, which was founded by the Western Fuels Association [ref]. Since the mid-1980s, more than 25 percent of funding for his research that is critical of greenhouse theory came from companies with vested interests in carbon dioxide-producing fossil fuels; received funding from ExxonMobil, the German Coal Mining Association, and the British Coal Corporation [ref]. Received funding from and/or was underwritten by the Kuwaiti government, Cyprus Minerals Company, and other foreign coal mining corporations… Balling stated that he received $408,000 in research support from fossil-fuel industries in the past 10 years [ref] Received over $300,000 in research funding and honoraria from oil companies and the Kuwaiti government [ref].”
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/
“On Earth day in April 1998, the same month that the Oregon Petition was released, the Western Fuels Association, one of the groups that had lunched the Information Council of the Environment, formed a new front group called the Greening Earth Society to promote ‘positive environmental thinking’ and reposition CO2 emissions not as a threat but as a boon to mankind.”
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/ “Climate activists connected the dots between CEED, ACCCE, and Greening Earth Society, and saw that the same people who told America that global warming wasn’t happening were now offering to help America solve the climate crisis … Yet he still wouldn’t concede that humans were causing climate change.”
Keith Kloor – Who Do You ‘Outsource’ to on Climate Science? – The Yale Forum On Climate Change & The Media, 19/03/2012 – http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/2012/03/who-do-you-%E2%80%98outsource%E2%80%99-to-on-climate-science/
“In a recent post explaining why she believes global warming is real, Atlantic senior editor Megan McArdle admitted that she relied on others who were more informed about climate science than her. So far, so good. After all, don’t we all do the same with complex subjects that we don’t have the time or inclination to study up on? McArdle next listed her go-to sources on climate change science: I’ve basically outsourced my opinion on the science to people like Jonathan Adler, Ron Bailey, and Pat Michaels of Cato – all of whom concede that anthropogenic global warming is real, though they may contest the likely extent, or desired remedies. [Editor’s Note: Adler is a former environmental official with the free-market Competitive Prize Institute in Washington, D.C., now on the faculty at Case Western Reserve University; Bailey is a libertarian columnist and science writer for Reason magazine and reason.com, products of the Reason Foundation, and a former journalist in residence at CEI; Michaels, a former University of Virginia faculty member and at one time the state’s climatologist, is founding editor of the World Climate Report, underwritten by the Greening Earth Society, Western Fuels Association.].”
Greening Earth Society – Wikipedia, 08/03/2020 – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greening_Earth_Society
“The Greening Earth Society, now defunct, was a public relations organization … The Society published the World Climate Report, a newsletter edited by Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute.[citation needed] 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. 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”.[8] Note that the actual increase in the global surface temperature during the 100 years ending in 2005 was 0.74 ± 0.18 °C.[9].”
