Climate negationists are financed by industry Lobbyists

The Global Climate Coalition, a group representing industries with profits tied to fossil fuels, which led an aggressive lobbying and public relations campaign against the idea that emissions of heat-trapping gases could lead to global warming. In 1997, the year of the Kyoto Protocol, the budget of the Coalition totaled $1.68 million much more than the 1.9 Millions allocated to the EPA programs.

Throughout the 1990, the coalition conducted a multimillion-dollar advertising campaign challenging the merits of an international agreement, policy makers and pundits were fiercely debating whether humans could dangerously warm the planet. By questioning the science on global warming the Global Climate Coalition were able to dulled public concern and delay government action. The coalition disbanded in 2002, but some members from the National Association of Manufacturers and the American Petroleum Institute, continue to “lobby against any law or treaty that would sharply curb emissions”.

  

Far from special interests, the IPCC is a scientific body of 2,500 scientists from all over the world committed to the work of the IPCC on a voluntary basis and an intergovernmental body endorsed by 194 governments and the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel. The IPCC believes than 90 percent of human activities, namely fossil fuel burning, explained most of an indisputable warming of the planet in the past 50 years. The panel said temperatures will likely rise by between 1.8 and 4.0 Celsius (3.2 and 7.8 Fahrenheit) this century.

Today, the rapid degradation due to climate change highlights the urgency of changing laws and regulations without further delay. The visible degradation of our planet required more flexible, adaptable policy and regulation than the one shaped so far by our industries. We are now seeing the first environmental refugees in the South Pacific, an entire country is slowly disappearing; Bangladesh. We have experienced an another winter of record-setting cold in many parts of North America. The list of critical issues is long, the global climate is out of control.

We are the last generation on earth that would be able to curb current and future emissions, we are collectively responsible and we have to stop pretending that we are not warned. Researching the topic of global climate change I realized that science and technology are ahead of economics, politics and people consciousness.


References:
 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Retrieved April 24, 2010 http://www.ipcc.ch/