Editing Global Climate Coalition (section)

=== ''Predicting Future Climate Change: A Primer'' ===
In 1995, GCC assembled an advisory committee of scientific and technical experts to compile an internal-only, 17-page report on climate science entitled ''Predicting Future Climate Change: A Primer'', which said: "The scientific basis for the Greenhouse Effect and the potential impact of human emissions of greenhouse gases such as CO2 on climate is well established and cannot be denied." In early 1996, GCC's operating committee asked the advisory committee to redact the sections that rebutted contrarian arguments, and accepted the report and distributed it to members. The draft document was disclosed in a 2007 lawsuit filed by the auto industry against California's efforts to regulate automotive greenhouse gas emissions.<ref name="Revkin 2009">{{harvnb|Revkin|2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/07/Climate-Deception-Dossier-7_GCC-Climate-Primer.pdf |first=Leonard S. |last=Bernstein |date=December 21, 1995 |access-date=February 11, 2016 |title=Approval draft: Predicting Future Climate Change: A Primer |archive-date=December 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151202221908/http://www.ucsusa.org/sites/default/files/attach/2015/07/Climate-Deception-Dossier-7_GCC-Climate-Primer.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref>

According to ''The New York Times'', the primer demonstrated that "even as the coalition worked to sway opinion, its own scientific and technical experts were advising that the science backing the role of greenhouse gases in global warming could not be refuted."<ref name="Revkin 2009"/> According to the [[Union of Concerned Scientists]] in 2015, the primer was: "remarkable for indisputably showing that, while some fossil fuel companies' deception about climate science has continued to the present day, at least two decades ago the companies' own scientific experts were internally alerting them about the realities and implications of climate change."<ref name="Mulvey 2015">{{harvnb|Mulvey|Shulman|2015}}</ref>