“Journalists were actually actively looking for the contrarians. It was really feeding an appetite that was already there.”
– Don Rheem, former environmental journalist turned lobbyist, on his work for the
Global Climate Coalition (GCC). Throughout the ’90s, the fossil fuel interest group challenged the science of global warming by funding climate sceptics. “My role was to identify the voices that were not in the mainstream and to give those voices a stage,” Rheem says.