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: Arizona State University Office of Cimatology, ASU Climatology
DETAILS
Office of Climatology Arizona State University Community Services Building Box 871508 Tempe, AZ 85287-1508
Phone: 480-965-3560; 480-965-6265
Fax: 480-965-1473
The Arizona State University Office of Climatology is directed by Robert Balling, a premier climate science skeptic.
Sherwood Idso, father of Craig and Keith Idso, is an adjunct professor at the ASU Office of Climatology. All of the Idsos are associated with the Western Fuels Association and the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, an organization dedicated to denying the impacts of global warming (http://www.co2science.org/about/center_staff.htm). Western Fuels Association's Greening Earth Society frequently uses research from ASU Climatology to promote its message that global warming is good for the planet. One example is Robert Balling's article on Loblolly Pines acting as a carbon sink to counteract rising CO2 levels (http://www.greeningearthsociety.org/Articles/2002/pine.htm). ExxonMobil sponsored at least one 2002 ASU Climatology project, "The 2000 United States Historical Climate Network Update: What Changed?" by Robert C. Balling, Jr. and Craig D. Idso. In 2000, The Greening Earth Society sponsored "Establishment and Operationalization of a Climate Data Task Force," by Robert C. Balling, Jr. and Russell S. Vose (http://www.asu.edu/clas/geography/climatology/Current%20Site/Index/Projects.html).
KEY DEEDS
Director Robert Balling and Craig Idso conducted an ExxonMobil-funded study in 2002, entitled "The 2000 United States Historical Climate Network Update: What Changed?"
Source: ASU web site 5/03
FUNDING
Arizona State University Office of Cimatology has received $49,500 from ExxonMobil since 1998.
2001
$49,500 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source: ExxonMobil 2001 Annual Report
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Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Center for the Study of CO2 and Climate Change
DETAILS
P.O Box 25697 Tempe, AZ 85285-5697
Phone: 480-966-3719
Fax: 480-966-0758
The Center's current mission 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 means of disseminating information, their magazine and website CO2 Science, includes articles both questioning the existence of climate change as well as touting the benefits to the biosphere from carbon dioxide enrichment. All aspects of climate change and its predicted effects - from melting ice caps to species extinction, to more severe weather - are criticized by the Center and either refuted or presented as beneficial. Fred Palmer, head of Western Fuels, said about the center: "The Center's viewpoint is a needed antidote to the misleading and usually erroneous scientific claims emanating from the Federal scientific establishment and adopted by leading politicians, such as Vice President Al Gore." The Center has since tried to distance itself from the Western Fuels Association, however, the Center is run by Keith and Craig Idso, along with their father, Sherwood. Both Idso brothers have been on the Western Fuels payroll at one time or another. Keith Idso, then a doctoral candidate at the University of Arizona, was a paid expert witness for Western Fuels Association at a 1995 Minnesota Public Utilities commission hearing in St. Paul, MN, along with MIT's Richard Lindzen, Patrick Michaels, and Robert Balling (The Heat is On). According to news from Basin Electr ic, a Western Fuels Association member, Craig Idso produced a report, "The Greening of Planet Earth." Its Progression from Hypothesis to Theory," in January 1998 for the Western Fuels Association (Basin Electric Latest News no date given).
KEY QUOTES
25 July, 2001
"Suffice it to say for now, there is no compelling reason to believe there will necessarily be any global warming as a result of the activities of man, especially those activities that result in CO2 emissions to the atmosphere."
Source: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change website 4/04
KEY DEEDS
3 November, 2003
Issued a report, entitled "Enhanced or Impaired? Human Health in a CO2-Enriched Warmer World," arguing that global warming would be beneficial to humans.
Source: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change website 4/04
29 July, 2003
Issued a report entitled "Study Debunks Claims of Warming-Induced Extinctions" arguing that global warming will be beneficial to biodiversity, rather than decreasing it as is generally accepted.
Source: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change Report 7/29/03
FUNDING
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change has received $90,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.
1998
$10,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
Source: ExxonMobil 1998 grants list
2000
$15,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
project support
Source: ExxonMobil Foundation 2000 IRS 990
2003
$40,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Climate Change Activities
Source: ExxonMobil 2003 Corporate Giving Report
2005
$25,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source: ExxonMobil 2005 DIMENSIONS Report (Corporate Giving)
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Craig Idso
DETAILS
Chairman of the Board, Founder and Former President, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.
Graduate Research Associate, office of Climatology, Arizona State University.
C. Idso's current research focus is on carbon sequestration. He is the son of the Center for the Study of CO2 and Climate Change's President Sherwood Idso and brother of VP Keith.
From 2001-2002, C. Idso served as Director of Environmental Science at Peabody Energy in St. Louis, MO. According to a newsletter from Basin Electric, a Western Fuels Association member company, Craig and Keith Idso produced a report, "The Greening of Planet Earth �Its Progression from Hypothesis to Theory," in January 1998 for the Western Fuels Association. Western Fuels Association is the suspected tfunder of the Center, though there is nothing more than circumstantial evidence. The Center does not reveal its funding sources.
B.S. in Geography from Arizona State University, M.S. in Agronomy from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona State University.
KEY QUOTES
22 April, 2004
"Although historical and projected future increases in the air's CO2 concentration and its wrongly-predicted ability to lead to catastrophic global warming have been universally hailed by climate alarmists as diabolically detrimental to human health, scientific studies clearly demonstrate that such is not the case."
Source: "Enhanced or Impaired? Human Health in a CO2-Enriched Warmer World" 11/03
4 July, 2001
"Suffice it to say, in this regard, that many dire things have been predicted to occur to nearly all forms of terrestrial and aquatic life on the basis of climate model predictions of catastrophic CO2-induced global warming, based on predicted future increases in atmospheric CO2 concentration and all sorts of assumptions about how various physical, chemical and biological phenomena might, or might not, interact with each other. What we essentially have in this situation, therefore, is a highly tentative and tortuous trail leading from anthropogenic CO2 emissions to sundry doomsday scenarios that spell devastation as severe as extinction for many types of life forms."
Source: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change website 4/04
KEY DEEDS
3 November, 2003
With father Sherwood and brother Keith, co-authored a report entitled "Enhanced or Impaired? Human Health in a CO2-Enriched Warmer World," which argues that global warming and an increase in atmospheric CO2 would be a boon to humanity.
Source: "Enhanced or Impaired? Human Health in a CO2-Enriched Warmer World" 11/03
ORGANIZATIONS
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
Source: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change website 4/04
Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow
Source: Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow CFACT Website 5/03
George C. Marshall Institute
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
Arizona State University Office of Cimatology
Source: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change website
Western Fuels
Source: Fredrick Palmer, Senate Testimony (2006)
Peabody Energy
Source: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change Site (2006)
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Same old guys. Keep trying, tho. The water rising around your toenails is from the Nile |
