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.
[1][2] It was a non-profit organization created by the Western Fuels Association,[3] with which it shared an office and many staff members.
[8][full citation needed] Fred Palmer, a Society staffer, is a registered lobbyist for Peabody Energy, a coal company.
[9] Although the Greening Earth Society generally rejected the science of climate change, it acknowledged some degree of global warming as real: "Fact #1.