2007
SEE TIMELINE
ch 12: 2007 big year: inc truth, MAY 2006
IPCC ARA 4, Nobel
even Luntz 180 after 2002 memo
ARA ~ pillars of deniers
but 2008 Nature jrnl artl misrepped, --> GW stopped meme --> Geo Will Wapo op ed; superFreakonomics 2009
Jrnl G res defreitas, carter amd ---
M&M PNAS
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FROM TIMELINE:
CA 2006 AB 32 under Arnold? (prop 23 tried to reverse)
2007: 4th Assessment Report by the IPCC says evidence for global warming is "unequivocal" and forecasts warming of 1.8-4.0 degrees C (3.2-7.2 degrees F) by 2100 and an unquantifiable rise in sea levels. Nobel Peace Prize is awarded jointly to IPCC and former US vice president Al Gore, whose documentary "An Inconvenient Truth" raised climate change awareness. UNFCCC parties agree a "Bali Road Map" for negotiating a post-2012 climate treaty. (AR4) At the end of 2007, the IPCC released the final document in its fourth assessment (AR4): the Synthesis report.
It confirmed and built on the previous reports, saying that the warming of the Earth’s climate systems was now
‘unequivocal’.
Bali, December 2007 gore saved kyoto and tried to save bali, tho stick it to US he admitted satis 13
PROPOSED 2007, KILLED FILIBUSTER 2008?
content.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1812836,00.html
pooley
- When the Lieberman-Warner Climate Security Act — the strongest global warming bill ever to make it to the Senate floor — died last Friday after a nasty, brutish and short debate, most environmental groups found reason to be cheerful. "We have taken comprehensive global warming legislation farther than it has ever gone before," National Resources Defense Council president Frances Beinecke wrote on her blog. "A national limit on global warming pollution is inevitable."
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Several large fossil fuel corporations provide significant funding for attempts to mislead the public about climate science's trustworthiness.[273] ExxonMobil and the Koch family foundations have been identified as especially influential funders of climate change contrarianism.[274] The bankruptcy of the coal company Cloud Peak Energy revealed it funded the Institute for Energy Research, a climate denial think tank, as well as several other policy influencers.[275][276]
After the IPCC released its Fourth Assessment Report in 2007, the American Enterprise Institute (AEI) offered British, American, and other scientists $10,000 plus travel expenses to publish articles critical of the assessment. The institute had received more than $1.6 million from Exxon, and its vice-chairman of trustees was former Exxon head Lee Raymond. Raymond sent letters that alleged the IPCC report was not "supported by the analytical work". More than 20 AEI employees worked as consultants to the George W. Bush administration.[277]
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