The Greening Earth Society , now defunct, was a public relations organization which denied the effects of climate change and the impacts of increased levels of carbon dioxide . The Society published the World Climate Report , a newsletter edited by Patrick Michaels of the Cato Institute .
14-661: 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
28-589: A "disinformation campaign" by some climatologists. Balling and his colleague Patrick Michaels took a complaint against the Star Tribune to the Minnesota News Council. By a 9–4 decision the council "voted to sustain the complaint that the Star Tribune editorial unfairly characterized the scientific reputations of Patrick Michaels and Robert Balling." At the 1998 hearing, Balling "acknowledged that he had received $ 408,000 in research funding from
42-544: 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. Although
56-685: A vehicle for advocacy on climate change, the environmental impact of CO2, and fossil fuel use." The Western Fuels Association has played a controversial role in the debate over global warming . Their 2005 annual report refers only to 'environmental and regulatory uncertainty', but they have been more outspoken in past annual reports. They have established groups such as the Greening Earth Society which promote various forms of climate change denial and have funded individual deniers, such as Patrick Michaels , Craig D. Idso and Sherwood Idso . Groups established by industry bodies like
70-637: Is the former Director of Environmental Science at Peabody Energy , and a science adviser to the climate change denialist group The Science and Public Policy Institute , which also receives funding from ExxonMobil . Idso is a lead author of the reports of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC), a project sponsored by the Heartland Institute . An unauthorized release of documents indicate Idso received $ 11,600 per month in 2012 from
84-725: Is the founder, president and current chairman of the board of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change , a group which receives funding from ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy and which promotes climate change denial . He is the brother of Keith E. Idso and son of Sherwood B. Idso . After growing up in Tempe Arizona, Idso received his B.S. in Geography from Arizona State University , his M.S. in Agronomy from
98-998: The Great Plains , Rocky Mountain and Southwest regions. In 2011 Western Fuels Association supplied approximately 19.4 million tons of coal to its members through its three mining operations; the Dry Fork Mine located in Gillette, Wyoming , The Colowyo Mine in Northwest Colorado, and the New Horizons Mine located in Nucla, Colorado . Western Fuels Western Fuels Association uses collective advocacy to represent industry interests including membership in Western Coal Traffic League, National Coal Transportation Association, CURE and
112-620: The University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1996, and his Ph.D. in geography from Arizona State University in 1998. His doctoral thesis was titled, Amplitude and phase changes in the seasonal atmospheric CO 2 cycle in the Northern Hemisphere . Idso remains actively involved in several aspects of global and environmental change, including climatology and meteorology, along with their impacts on agriculture. Idso has published scientific articles on issues related to data quality,
126-407: The Greening Earth Society generally denies the true impact 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". Note that the actual increase in the global surface temperature during the 100 years ending in 2005 was 0.74 ± 0.18 °C. Craig D. Idso Craig D. Idso
140-727: The National Mining Association. In May 1994 Richard Lindzen , Patrick Michaels , and Robert Balling served as expert witnesses on behalf of Western Fuels Association in St. Paul, Minnesota to determine the environmental cost of coal burning by state power plants. Balling was mentioned as a fossil fuel industry – funded scientist in Ross Gelbspan 's 1997 book The Heat is On . This led the Minnesota Star Tribune to run an editorial speaking of
154-495: The Western Fuels Association have been criticized as Astroturf organizations , since they appear superficially to be grassroots initiatives. 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 ,
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#1732786913234168-433: The fossil fuel industry over the last decade (of which his University takes 50% for overhead)." Between December 1998 and September 2001 Balling was listed as a "Scientific Adviser" to the Greening Earth Society , a group that was funded and controlled by the Western Fuels Association (WFA), an association of coal-burning utility companies. WFA founded the group in 1997, according to an archived version of its website, "as
182-656: The growing season, the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO 2 , world food supplies, coral reefs, and urban CO 2 concentrations, the latter of which he investigated via a National Science Foundation grant as a faculty researcher in the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University. His main focus is on the environmental benefits of carbon dioxide. In addition, he has lectured in meteorology at Arizona State University, and in Physical Geography at Mesa Community College and Chandler-Gilbert Community College . He
196-718: The past several decades has been about 0.18°C per decade". Note that the actual increase in the global surface temperature during the 100 years ending in 2005 was 0.74 ± 0.18 °C. This article about an organization in the United States is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Western Fuels Association The Western Fuels Association is a $ 400 million consortium of coal suppliers and coal-fired utilities based in Westminster, Colorado . Western Fuels Association supplies coal and transportation services to consumer-owned electric utilities in
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