R.I.P - Updates

Sierra, Sept-Oct, 2002

The Global Climate Coalition, which since 1989 has been injecting a lot of hot air into the global-warming debate, has finally run out of steam. The industry-funded association, created solely to attack the growing body of science linking industrial emissions to global warming, had an early membership that included Exxon, Ford, General Motors, and the U.S.

Chamber of Commerce. But as evidence mounted that greenhouse-gas emissions and global warming were linked, companies began to desert the organization. In early 2002, the misinformation machine closed its doors. (See "Lay of the Land," July/August 2000, page 22.)