Let's end this thread now. I HAD TO GO looking for the unethical insidious work of this GCC mystery group.
THEY DISBANDED in 2002. Which was coincidentally, when MOST of the hype about CATASTROPHIC GW theories was crumbling and sliding away. So -- MAYBE they "helped" to save the world from BAD science.
They existed for about 10 years. They are no more. And haven't weighed in on ANYTHING in 20 years. That was still when the WWW was in the crib and diapers.
www.sourcewatch.org
. The Global Climate Coalition was created in 1989, shortly after the IPCC's first meeting.
The GCC operated until 1997 out of the offices of the
National Association of Manufacturers. Its early members included Amoco, the American Forest & Paper Association, American Petroleum Institute,
Chevron,
Chrysler, Cyprus AMAX Minerals,
Exxon,
Ford,
General Motors,
Shell Oil, Texaco, and the
United States Chamber of Commerce.
By 1997, the growing scientific and public consensus regarding global warming forced a number of GCC supporters to reconsider the negative PR implications of their involvement in a group that was increasingly recognized as a self-serving anti-environmental front group.
BP/Amoco withdrew from GCC after BP's chairman admitted that "the time to consider the policy dimensions of climate change is not when the link between greenhouse gases and climate change is conclusively proven, but when the possibility cannot be discounted and is taken seriously by the society of which we are part.
We in BP have reached that point." Other prominent companies that have publicly abandoned GCC include American Electric Power, Dow, Dupont, Royal Dutch Shell, Ford, Daimler Chrysler, Southern Company, Texaco and General Motors.
The GCC disbanded in early 2002, explaining that it "has served its purpose by contributing to a new national approach to global warming. The Bush administration will soon announce a climate policy that is expected to rely on the development of new technologies to reduce greenhouse emissions, a concept strongly supported by the GCC." After years spent denying that greenhouse emissions were a serious environmental problem, the organization's parting shot at history combined a tacit admission that it had been wrong all along, along with an endorsement of the
George W. Bush administration's proposal for ineffective "voluntary" industry measures to address the problem.
Excerpts from the GCC web site
The Global Climate Coalition has been deactivated. The industry voice on climate change has served its purpose by contributing to a new national approach to global warming.The Bush administration will soon announce a climate policy that is expected to rely on the development of new technologies to reduce greenhouse emissions, a concept strongly supported by the GCC.
The coalition also opposed Senate ratification of the Kyoto Protocol that would assign such stringent targets for lowering greenhouse gas emissions that economic growth in the U. S. would be severely hampered and energy prices for consumers would skyrocket. The GCC also opposed the treaty because it does not require the largest developing countries to make cuts in their emissions.At this point, both Congress and the Administration agree that the U.S. should not accept the mandatory cuts in emissions required by the protocol.
We all know they type!!
