Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
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The Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change is a non-profit organization based in Arizona. Its stated purpose is to "disseminate factual reports and sound commentary on new developments in the world-wide scientific quest to determine the climatic and biological consequences of the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content." The center publishes CO2 Science Magazine.
The centre was founded and is run by Craig D Idso, son of Sherwood B Idso and Sherwood's son Keith E Idso. They came from backgrounds in agriculture, and became involved in the debate over global warming through their study of plant response to elevated CO2 levels and carbon sequestration. The Center is generally critical of the position of the IPCC and is of a strongly skeptical bent - proclaiming There Has Been No Net Global Warming for the Past 70 Years. Note that their first two pieces of evidence for this - the lack of warming in the Satellite temperature record and the ballon record - are no longer true, following corrections to the observational data. The warming seen in the instrumental temperature record remains.
For some time in 2005, the website was no longer free, because grants and donations to the site had declined dramatically [1]. As of 2006 it is free again, though there is a "premium login".
The Center has links to the fossil fuel industry, both through personnel and funding.
According to Center for Science in the Public Interest, the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change received $10,000 from ExxonMobil in 2001. [2]
StopExxon.org reports Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change has received $65,000 from ExxonMobil between 1998 and 2003. [3]
The Center works with the Greening Earth Society, a front group of the Western Fuels Association.
Both Keith E. Idso and Craig Idso, along with their father, Sherwood B. Idso. Both Idso brothers have been on the Western Fuels payroll at one time or another.
The Center produces a weekly online science newsletter called CO2 Science Magazine.
