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">Template:Cite web</ref><ref name="Fisher 2021">Template:Cite web</ref>
Foundation by the Western Fuels Association
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>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite web</ref><ref>Template:Cite 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>
Accepting global warming, but miscalculating the increase in the global surface temperature
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">Template:Cite web</ref>