Climate Coalition Research Articles

Industry Group Assails Climate Chapter

The political debate over greenhouse warming heated up by several degrees when an industry group charged that revisions to a crucial chapter in a United Nations report on climate change violated peer review and amount to “scientific cleansing” of doubts about human influence on climate. Earlier this month, the Washington, D.C.-based Global Climate Coalition—which is supported by oil and coal producers and electric utilities—argued in a public statement that changes made after the draft report was issued last fall were politically motivated. The authors of the chapter at issue, which concludes that a human effect on climate may already be apparent, deny the charges, saying that the changes were legitimate and were made at reviewers' suggestions.

Global Warming: Industry Group Assails Climate Chapter

The political debate over greenhouse warming heated up by several degrees when an industry group charged that revisions to a crucial chapter in a United Nations report on climate change violated peer review and amount to “scientific cleansing” of doubts about human influence on climate. Earlier this month, the Washington, D.C.-based Global Climate Coalition—which is supported by oil and coal producers and electric utilities—argued in a public statement that changes made after the draft report was issued last fall were politically motivated. The authors of the chapter at issue, which concludes that a human effect on climate may already be apparent, deny the charges, saying that the changes were legitimate and were made at reviewers' suggestions.

Plan to prevent climate change pleases industry

Global Climate Coalition, an Washington, D.C.-based industry group, has declared its support for the U.S. National Action Plan to prevent global climate change. group particularly likes the absence of formal targets and timetables for stabilizing or reducing emissions of carbon dioxide or other greenhouse gases. The National Action Plan is an excellent first step and contains a comprehensive framework that can endure over the longer term, says John B. Shlaes, director of the coalition. National Action Plan is the U.S. blueprint for reducing greenhouse gas emissions, which was sent to the United Nations just before former President George Bush left office. It is required under the treaty on climate change signed at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro last June. plan will be revised at least once before it is finalized, in response to public comments that were received before March 8. Global Climate Coalition is an organization of 50 ...