Greening Earth Society

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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.{{cite web | title=Patrick J. Michaels | website=SourceWatch | date=2011-01-25 | url=https://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Patrick_J._Michaels | access-date=2021-10-27}}{{cite web | last=Fisher | first=Michael | title=World Climate Report | website=DeSmog | date=2021-09-01 | url=https://www.desmog.com/world-climate-report/ | access-date=2021-10-27}}

It was a non-profit organization created by the Western Fuels Association,[http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/08/14/BU70391.DTL San Francisco Chronicle] with which it shared an office and many staff members.{{cite web|url=http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/global_warming_contrarians/global-warming-skeptic.html |title=Global Warming Skeptic Organizations |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311030651/http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/global_warming_contrarians/global-warming-skeptic.html |archivedate=March 11, 2010 }}{{cite web |url=http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/global_warming_contrarians/global-warming-skeptic.html |title= Global Warming Skeptic Organizations | Union of Concerned Scientists|website=www.ucsusa.org |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100311030651/http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/global_warming_contrarians/global-warming-skeptic.html |archive-date=March 11, 2010}}{{Cite web |url=http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=88 |title=Exxonsecrets: Greening Earth Society |access-date=2008-02-09 |archive-date=2017-10-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171003020951/http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=88 |url-status=dead }}{{Unreliable source?|date=January 2010}} It has been called a "front group created by the coal industry"[http://www.prwatch.org/taxonomy/term/103?from=110 PRWatch.org]{{full citation needed|date=January 2015}} and an "industry front".[http://archive.salon.com/books/review/2001/07/02/murray/index.html Salon.com] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090422232352/http://archive.salon.com/books/review/2001/07/02/murray/index.html |date=2009-04-22 }}{{full citation needed|date=January 2015}} Fred Palmer, a Society staffer, is a registered lobbyist for Peabody Energy, a coal company.[https://archive.today/20070510102303/http://sopr.senate.gov/cgi-win/m_opr_viewer.exe?DoFn=3 U.S. Lobby Registration and Disclosure Page]

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".[https://web.archive.org/web/20050315081640/http://www.greeningearthsociety.org/wca/2004/wca_19d.html Greening Earth Society] Note that the actual increase in the global surface temperature during the 100 years ending in 2005 was 0.74 ± 0.18 °C.{{cite web | url= http://www.ipcc.ch/pdf/assessment-report/ar4/wg1/ar4-wg1-spm.pdf | title=Summary for Policymakers | work=Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change | accessdate=2007-02-02 | date=2007-02-05 | publisher=Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change|quote=The updated hundred-year linear trend (1906 to 2005) of 0.74 °C [0.56 °C to 0.92 °C] is therefore larger than the corresponding trend for 1901 to 2000 given in the TAR of 0.6 °C [0.4 °C to 0.8 °C].}}