{"id":10086,"date":"2015-07-15T07:17:50","date_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10086"},"modified":"2015-07-15T07:17:50","modified_gmt":"2015-07-15T12:17:50","slug":"peabody-energy-to-white-house-greenhouse-gas-a-non-existent-harm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=10086","title":{"rendered":"Peabody Energy to White House: Greenhouse Gas a ‘Non-Existent Harm’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Peabody Energy to White House: Greenhouse Gas a ‘Non-Existent Harm’<\/a><\/h3>\n

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In an official submission to the White House earlier this year,\u00a0U.S.<\/span>\u00a0coal giant Peabody Energy claims that greenhouse gas is a \u201cnon-existent harm\u201d and a \u201cbenign gas that is essential to all\u00a0life.\u201d<\/p>\n

The March 2015 submission from Peabody further claims that \u201cwhile the benefits of carbon dioxide are proven, the alleged risks of climate change are contrary to observed data, are based on admitted speculation, and lack adequate scientific\u00a0basis.\u201d<\/p>\n

It has become increasingly rare, especially in the last few years as countries and corporations have begun to take the issue of climate change more seriously, to see a publicly traded company like\u00a0Peabody Energy (NYSE<\/span>:\u00a0BTU<\/span>)<\/a>\u00a0making claims that are so contrary to the well-documented scientific consensus that greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels are negatively impacting our climate, health and way of living.<\/p>\n

While there are thousands of peer-reviewed scientific documents available on the impacts of climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, the Peabody climate change document relies heavily on claims made in newspaper opinion articles and by organizations with known connections to the fossil fuel\u00a0industry.<\/p>\n

An analysis of the 304 footnote citations in the Peabody document finds that opinion articles published in media outlets, primarily the\u00a0Wall Street Journal<\/em>, were cited as supporting evidence 41 times ,and groups with historical ties to the fossil fuel industry (e.g.\u00a0Cato Institute<\/a>,\u00a0American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity<\/a>\u00a0and the\u00a0Global Warming Policy Foundation<\/a>) were cited 64\u00a0times.<\/p>\n

Articles cited from peer-reviewed scientific journals made up only 8% of the evidence cited in Peabody’s\u00a0arguments:<\/p>\n

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\nHere are some of the key quotes from the Peabody climate change\u00a0document:<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cThere are no demonstrated foreseeable effects of any\u00a0GHG<\/span>\u00a0emissions.\u201d\u00a0(pg.3)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Peabody Energy to White House: Greenhouse Gas a ‘Non-Existent Harm’ In an official submission to the White House earlier this year,\u00a0U.S.\u00a0coal giant Peabody Energy claims that greenhouse gas is a \u201cnon-existent harm\u201d and a \u201cbenign gas that is essential to all\u00a0life.\u201d The March 2015 submission from Peabody further claims that \u201cwhile the benefits of carbon […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[112,3193,113,147,5317,1426,2741,1162,655,705,877],"class_list":["post-10086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy-2","category-environment","tag-carbon","tag-carbon-dioxide","tag-carbon-emissions","tag-coal","tag-desmog-blog","tag-misinformation","tag-opinion","tag-peabody-energy","tag-propaganda","tag-science","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10087,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10086\/revisions\/10087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}