Greening Earth Society
Template:Expand German 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.<ref name="SourceWatch 2011">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="Fisher 2021">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
It was a non-profit organization created by the Western Fuels Association,<ref>San Francisco Chronicle</ref> with which it shared an office and many staff members.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>Template:Unreliable source? It has been called a "front group created by the coal industry"<ref>PRWatch.org</ref>Template:Full citation needed and an "industry front".<ref>Salon.com Template:Webarchive</ref>Template:Full citation needed Fred Palmer, a Society staffer, is a registered lobbyist for Peabody Energy, a coal company.<ref>U.S. Lobby Registration and Disclosure Page</ref>
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".<ref>Greening Earth Society</ref> Note that the actual increase in the global surface temperature during the 100 years ending in 2005 was 0.74 ± 0.18 °C.<ref name="grida7a">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>