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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 (CSCDGC) was founded in 1998. It states on its website that its mission is to distribute "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" [1]
The Center produces a weekly online science newsletter called CO2 Science Magazine.
In October 1999 Craig D. Idso and Keith E. Idso mentioned that they had "recently completed a project commissioned by the Greening Earth Society entitled "Forecasting World Food Supplies: The Impact of the Rising Atmospheric CO2 Concentration," which we presented at the Second Annual Dixy Lee Ray Memorial Symposium held in Washington, DC on 31 August - 2 September 1999." [1] The Greening Earth Society, a front group of the Western Fuels Association.
Donald Paul Hodel, chairman of Summit Power Group is listed among the "scientific advisors" to the Center.[2]
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Funding
On it's website Sherwood B. Idso writes that "our typical response is that we never discuss our funding. Why? Because we believe that ideas about the way the world of nature operates should stand or fall on their own merits, irrespective of the source of support for the person or organization that produces them ... It is self-evident, for example, that one need not know from whence a person's or organization's funding comes in order to evaluate the reasonableness of what they say, if - and this is a very important qualification - one carefully studies the writings of people on both sides of the issue."[3]
The Center states on its website that it "accepts corporate, foundation and individual donations" and that "all donations are kept confidential".[4]
Sherwood Idso confirmed that Exxon "made some donations to us a few times in the past" but attributed this to the fact that "they probably liked what we typically had to say about the issue. But what we had to say then, and what we have to say now, came not, and comes not, from them or any other organization or person."[3]
ExxonMobil's 2001 list of groups it funded listed a $10,000 contribution to the CSCDGC in 2001. Center for Science in the Public Interest, "Center for the study of carbon dioxide and global change", Integrity in Science, undated, accessed March 2004. [5]
StopExxon.org reports CSCDGC has received $90,000 from ExxonMobil between 1998 and 2005 comprising: [6]
- 1998: $10,000
- 2000: $15,000
- 2003: $40,000
- 2005: $25,000
Personnel
- Craig Idso, Chairman
- Sherwood B. Idso, President, (the father of Keith and Craig)
- Keith E. Idso, Vice President
- Julene M. Idso, Operations Manager.
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Contact details
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
P.O. Box 25697
Tempe, AZ 85285-5697
USA
Telephone: 480-966-3719
Fax: 480-966-0758
Email: staff AT co2science.org
Web: http://www.co2science.org/center.htm
References
- ↑ Craig D. Idso and Keith E. Idso, "Give Peace a Chance by Giving Plants a Chance", Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Volume 2, Number 19: 1 October 1999.
- ↑ "CO2 Science," Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change website, accessed July 2008
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Sherwood B. Idso, "What Motivates the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change?", Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, accessed April 2008.
- ↑ Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, ""Contribute To The Center", accessed April 2008.
- ↑ Exxon, Public Information and Policy Research", archived file from October 2001, accessed June 2007.
- ↑ "FACTSHEET: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Center for the Study of CO2 and Climate Change", Exxonsecrets.org, accessed June 2007.
