Climate Front Group Ignored Its Own Scientists

An internal document (pdf) of the Global Climate Coalition -- an industry front group which disbanded in 2002 -- has revealed that when the group chose to promote doubt about the reality of global warming it was ignoring the views of its own scientific advisers. In a backgrounder distributed to members of congress and journalists in the 1990's, the GCC stated that “the role of greenhouse gases in climate change is not well understood", though it added the qualifier that scientists disagreed on the issue. However, an internal document, obtained as a part of a court action against the automobile industry, indicates the GCC's advisers disagreed. '“The scientific basis for the Greenhouse Effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well established and cannot be denied,” they wrote.