Texto de referencia:
Union of Concerned Scientists – Global Warming Skeptic Organizations: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide & Global Change – Union of Concerned Scientists, 20/10/2005 – http://www.ucsusa.org/global_warming/science_and_impacts/global_warming_contrarians/global-warming-skeptic.html
“The Center is led by two brothers, Craig and Keith Idso. Their father, Sherwood Idso, is affiliated with the Greening Earth Society; the Center also shares a board member (Sylvan Wittwer) with GES. Both Idso brothers have been on the Western Fuels payroll at one time or another. Spin: Increased levels of CO2 will help plants, and that’s good. Funding: The Center is extremely secretive of its funding sources, stating that it is their policy not to divulge it funders. There is evidence for a strong connection to the Greening Earth Society (ergo Western Fuels Association). Affiliated Individuals: Craig Idso, Keith Idso, Sylvan Wittwer.”
Josh Harkinson – No. 8: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (A.K.A. The Idso Family) – Mother Jones, 04/12/2009 – http://motherjones.com/environment/2009/12/dirty-dozen-climate-change-denial-11-idso-family
“The Idso clan is the von Trapp family of climate change denial. In 1980, paterfamilias Sherwood Idso, a self-described “bio-climatologist,” published a paper in Science concluding that doubling the world’s carbon dioxide concentration wouldn’t change the planet’s temperature all that much. In years that followed, Idso and his colleagues at Arizona State University’s Office of Climatology received more than $1 million in research funding from oil, coal, and utility interests. In 1990, he coauthored a paper funded by a coal mining company, titled ‘Greenhouse Cooling.’.”
John Abraham (2011) – Hear ye, hear ye – Monckton’s medieval warming tale is climate heresy – The Conversation, 14/07/2011 – Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering at University of St. Thomas – https://theconversation.com/hear-ye-hear-ye-moncktons-medieval-warming-tale-is-climate-heresy-2326
“In a recent lecture given at the University of Notre Dame in Australia (June 2011) represented by his document “The Climate of Freedom”, Monckton claims, ‘Dr. Craig Idso has collected papers by almost 1000 scientists worldwide, nearly all of which demonstrate the influence of the Medieval Warm Period (MWP) and show it was at least as warm as, and in most instances warmer than, the present.’.” (N.A.: Falso)
John Mashey – Fake science, fakexperts, funny finances, free of tax – Desmogblog, 14/02/2012 – http://www.desmogblog.com/sites/beta.desmogblog.com/files/fake.pdf
“He was helped by Craig Idso, of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide & Global Change (CDCDGC), whose money flows also seem unusual. Robert Ferguson’s Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI) was a website and a PO Box in a UPS store and he was actually a CSCDGC employee.”
Richard Littlemore – Mashey Report Confirms Heartland’s Manipulation; Exposes Singer’s Deception – Desmogblog, 15/02/2012 – http://www.desmogblog.com/mashey-report-confirms-heartland-s-manipulation-exposes-singer-s-deception
“Mashey’s report, on its own, made a devastating case that Heartland and several other purported “think tanks” are taking an unfair subsidy from the American taxpayer, while lobbying for some of the world’s most profitable industries. Mashey also demonstrates that Heartland, Singer’s SEPP, Craig Idso‘s Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide & Global Change and its subsidiary front group, Robert Ferguson’s Science and Public Policy Institute, are not primarily research institutions, but rather advocacy organizations. As “think tanks” they sponsor very little “thinking” (in the form of scientific or even social research) and instead serve as weapons in a communications war against policy on issues such as climate change.”
Marc Gunter – The toxic debate over climate science – Marc Gunter, 15/02/2012 – http://www.marcgunther.com/2012/02/15/the-toxic-debate-over-climate-science/
“Craig Idso, a scientist (and former coal company executive) who is said to be receiving $11,600 a month from Heartland.”
Rebecca Leber – Fossil Fuel-Backed Group Is Behind The Latest Climate Change Denier Campaign – Climate Progress, 04/09/2013 – – http://thinkprogress.org/climate/2013/09/04/2571121/heartland-climate-denier-campaign/
“Heartland has budgeted nearly $1.6 million for the release surrounding its report, according to internal documents leaked last year. The lead authors include familiar faces of the climate misinformation movement: The senior editor is Craig Idso, who has worked directly for energy companies, and has called carbon pollution a “win, win, win for all of life.” Rolling Stone once called out another of the paper’s authors, Fred Singer, a former mouthpiece for the tobacco industry who describes global warming as “unequivocally good news.” And a third author, Bob Carter, was recently dumped by his employer at James Cook University in Australia.”
Brendan Demelle – International Climate Science Coalition Lacks Credibility, Launches Heartland Institute Anti-Science Report – DeSmogBlog, 17/09/2013 – http://www.desmogblog.com/2013/09/17/international-climate-science-coalition-s-lacks-credibility
“I really hope mainstream media does not fall for their trickery again. After all, it is pretty well known by now that Fred Singer, the lead author on the International Climate Science Coalition’s report, was an apologist for the tobacco industry long before he got into the business of denying the basic science of climate change. The other authors of the report, Bob Carter and Craig Idso, have equally shaky backgrounds when it comes to the science of climate change.”
Shauna Theel – Heartland Institute’s Smoke And Mirrors Attempt To Debunk Consensus Science – Media Matters, 08/04/2014 – http://mediamatters.org/blog/2014/04/08/heartland-institutes-smoke-and-mirrors-attempt/198805
“While IPCC’s dozens of authors are unpaid, at least three of the NIPCC’s four lead authors are paid by the Heartland Institute. One of the authors, Craig Idso, used to work for the coal company Peabody Energy and wrote a contracted study for the industry group The American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity. The IPCC reviews the current state of scientific knowledge, while the NIPCC’s references in its Summary for Policymakers include publications that date back to 1904 and few references from this century other than non-peer-reviewed reports from itself and its authors. As climate scientist Donald Wuebbles noted at the end of the Fox News report, the NIPCC report is “full of misinformation” and “not peer-reviewed.””
Graham Readfearn – Bankrupt Coal Miner Peabody Energy Paid Climate Denialist Craig Idso To Write Greenhouse Gas Reports – Desmog, 06/07/2016 – – http://www.desmogblog.com/2016/07/06/bankrupt-coal-miner-peabody-energy-paid-climate-denialist-crag-idso-write-greenhouse-gas-reports
“Peabody Energy was revealed as a funder of a web of groups and organisations that have worked to spread doubt over human-caused climate change while fighting rules to cut greenhouse gas emissions. Dr Idso, the chairman and founder of CSCDGC, has written many reports claiming that extra carbon dioxide is a benefit to the planet, while ignoring or downplaying the many negatives. His work was used in a flawed report from the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity — a grouping of coal miners, transporters and burners — which argued greenhouse gas emissions were a large net financial benefit to society. Other reports from the center include “The Many Benefits of Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment”, “Problems with Model Predictions of Species Extinctions” and “Atmospheric CO2 Enrichment: Boon or Bane of the Biosphere? Idso’s brother Keith and father Sherwood are the only personnel listed on the center’s website.”
Ben Jervey and Steve Horn – Heritage Foundation’s Climate and Energy Policy Summit: Science Deniers Emboldened by Trump’s Electoral Victory – Desmogblog, 08/12/2016 – https://www.desmogblog.com/2016/12/08/heritage-foundation-s-climate-and-energy-policy-summit-science-deniers-emboldened-trump-s-electoral-victory
“Craig Idso … is the chairman and former president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change … “[CO2] increases plant productivity, enhances plant water use efficiency, and helps plants” better handle stresses. Saying he was hopeful Trump would change course, Idso said the Obama administration has far too long “besmirched and defamed the many virtues of carbon dioxide” and that “CO2 is not a pollutant. It is the very elixir of life.”.”
Publicaciones
Craig Idso and Fred S. Singer (2009) – Climate Change Reconsidered: The 2009 Report of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) – The Heartland Institute, 01/06/2009 – Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide & Global Change; Science and Environmental Policy Project – http://nipccreport.org/reports/2009/pdf/CCR2009FullReport.pdf – 35 autores
“On the most important issue, the IPCC’s claim that “most of the observed increase in global average temperatures since the mid-twentieth century is very likely due to the observed increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations [emphasis in the original],” NIPCC reaches the opposite conclusion— namely, that natural causes are very likely to be the dominant cause.”
Craig D. Idso, Robert M. Carter, S. Fred Singer (2011) – Climate Change Reconsidered: 2011 Interim Report – Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) – The Heartland Institute – http://www.nipccreport.org/reports/2011/pdf/2011NIPCCinterimreport.pdf
“The Heartland Institute is pleased to partner once again with the Science and Environmental Policy Project and the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change on a report that makes a serious contribution to the global debate over the causes and consequences of climate change. Events since our last collaboration, the publication of Climate Change Reconsidered in 2009 (hereafter NIPCC-1), have made this new report necessary while also making the earlier report look prescient. This foreword briefly recaps how the global warming debate has changed in just the past two years.”
Craig Idso (2015) – The Impacts of Elevated CO2 on Paddy Ecosystem C and N Status – CO2 Science, 21/07/2015 – http://www.co2science.org/articles/V18/jul/a15.php
“This work revealed … that (1) “elevated CO2 stimulated rice aboveground biomass and nitrogen accumulation by 19.1% and 12.5%, respectively” (see figure below), that (2) “elevated CO2 significantly increased paddy soil total organic carbon (TOC) and total nitrogen (TN) contents by 19.1% and 12.5% , respectively, in the 0-15 cm layer, and 22.7% and 26.0% in the 15-30 cm soil layer,” that (3) “averaged across the rice growing period, elevated CO2 greatly increased TOC and TN contents in the surface water by 7.6% and 11.4%, respectively,” and that (4) “the TOC/TN ratio and natural δ15N value in the surface soil showed a decreasing trend under elevated CO2,” while adding that “the above results indicate that elevated CO2 can benefit C and N accumulation in paddy fields.”.”
Craig Idso, Robert M. Carter (1942-2016) and S. Fred Singer (2017) – Why Scientists Disagree About Global Warming – The Heartland- 17/03/2017 – https://www.heartland.org/_template-assets/documents/publications/12-04-15_why_scientists_disagree.pdf
“The most important fact about climate science, often overlooked, is that scientists disagree about the environmental impacts of the combustion of fossil fuels on the global climate.”
