The Global Climate Coalition was a group of mainly United States businesses opposing immediate action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. The group formed in 1989 as a response to several reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. A major scientific report on the severity of global warming by the IPCC in 2001 led to large-scale membership loss. Since 2002 the GCC has been dormant, or in its own words, "deactivated". Top: Increasing atmospheric CO2 levels as measured in the atmosphere and ice cores. ... IPCC is the science authority for the UNFCCC The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was established in 1988 by two United Nations organizations, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), to evaluate the risk of climate change brought on by humans, based mainly on... Global mean surface temperatures 1850 to 2006 Mean surface temperature anomalies during the period 1995 to 2004 with respect to the average temperatures from 1940 to 1980 Global warming is the observed increase in the average temperature of the Earths atmosphere and oceans in recent decades and the projected... Year 2001 (MMI) was a common year starting on Monday (link displays the 2001 Gregorian calendar). ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ...

It says of itself:

"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 ^[1].

Benjamin D. Santer, a climate change researcher, wrote: Dr. Benjamin D. Santer Climate researcher, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. ...

"The Global Climate Coalition - a less than disinterested party - has made serious allegations regarding the scientific integrity of the Lead Authors of Chapter 8, and of the IPCC process itself."^[2]

Prominent members (to 1997)

• Exxon / Esso
• Ford
• Royal Dutch/Shell
• Texaco
• British Petroleum
• General Motors
• DaimlerChrysler

Between 1997 and the Coalition's deactivation in 2001, a number of its members left, as part of their move to acknowledge global warming and attempt to reduce their carbon emissions (see Business action on climate change). Dupont and British Petroleum left in 1997, Royal Dutch/Shell in 1998, Ford in 1999, and DaimlerChrysler, General Motors, and Texaco in 2000. Exxon Mobil Corporation or ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM), headquartered in Irving, Texas, is an oil producer and distributor formed on November 30, 1999, by the merger of Exxon and Mobil. ... An Esso Station in Stabekk, Norway Esso sign Edmonton, Alberta, Canada Esso is an international trade name for Exxon Mobil Corporation and its related companies. ... Ford Motor Company is an American multinational corporation and the worlds third largest automaker after Toyota and General Motors, based on worldwide vehicle sales. ... Royal Dutch Shell PLC is a multinational oil company (oil major) of British and Dutch origins. ... Texaco is the name of an American oil company that was merged into Chevron Corporation in 2001. ... This article is about the corporation known as BP. For other uses, see BP (disambiguation). ... General Motors Corporation (NYSE: GM), also known as GM, is an American automobile maker with worldwide operations and brands including Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, GMC, Holden, Hummer, Opel, Pontiac, Saturn, Saab and Vauxhall. ... DaimlerChrysler AG (ISIN: DE0007100000) is a German car corporation and the worlds fifth largest car manufacturer. ... Business action on climate change includes a range of activities relating to combatting global warming, and to influencing political decisions on global-warming-related regulation, such as the Kyoto Protocol. ...

External links

• GCC homepage - No longer active as of March 2006

References and notes

• John Vidal, The Guardian, June 8, 2005, "Revealed: how oil giant influenced Bush: White House sought advice from Exxon on Kyoto stance"
• Bob May, The Guardian, 27 January 2005, Under-informed

1. ^ http://www.globalclimate.org/
2. ^ (Source: E-mail correspondence between S. Fred Singer and Ben Santer)