Texto de referencia:
Ross Gelbspan (1995) – The Heat Is On: The warming of the world’s climate sparks a blaze of denial – Harper’s Magazine, 01/12/1995 – Premio Pulitzer – http://dieoff.org/page82.htm
“For the most part the industry has relied on a small band of skeptics—Dr. Richard S. Lindzen, Dr. Pat Michaels, Dr. Robert Balling, Dr. Sherwood Idso, and Dr. S. Fred Singer, among others—who have proven extraordinarily adept at draining the issue of all sense of crisis. Through their frequent pronouncements in the press and on radio and television, they have helped to create the illusion that the question is hopelessly mired in unknowns.”
Ross Gelbspan (1998) – Big Coal’s Funding of Skeptics (1998) – The Heat is Online – http://www.heatisonline.org/contentserver/objecthandlers/index.cfm?ID=4462&Method=Full
“The year before the 1992 United Nations Conference on the Environment in Rio, a coalition of coal and utility companies launched a disinformation campaign designed by a public relations firm to create the Information Council on the Environment (ICE). The plan specified the use of three so-called «greenhouse skeptics» — Drs. Robert Balling, Pat Michaels and Sherwood Idso — in broadcast appearances, op-ed articles and newspaper interviews in selected markets. The goal of the campaign was to «reposition global warming as theory rather than fact.”
Ross Gelbspan (1998) – The Heat Is on: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription – Basic Books (Perseus Books Group) – Pulitzer Price – ISBN-13: 978-0738200255 – 288 Págs
“Titled ‘The Greening of Planet Earth’, the video is narrated by Sherwood Idso, an active skeptic, and it features Richard Lindzen as well as a number of botanists and agronimists. (The video was produced by a company headed by Idso’s wife; the coal industry, which funded it, has purchased and circulated hundreds of copies of books and publications written by Idso.) In near evangelical tones, it promises that a new age of agricultural abundance will result from the doubling of the atmosphere concentration of CO2 … One source Michaels cited was Sherwood Idso’s son, Keith E. Idso, a doctoral candidate at Arizona State University. Keith Idso is another skeptic who was hired by Western Fuels to testify at the St. Paul hearing.” (p. 43)
Ross Gelbspan (1998) – The Heat Is on: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription – Basic Books (Perseus Books Group) – Pulitzer Price – ISBN-13: 978-0738200255 – 288 Págs
“Assistant Attorney General Jonathan Wirtschafter asked Idso on the witness stand, ‘Mr. Idso, do you know if the New American is published by an advocay group or a research institute?’ ‘I know it’s not a scientific magazine,’ Idso replied. ‘It’s something in the popular press.’ ‘Is it published by an advocacy group of some sort?’ Wirtschafter asked. ‘I don’t know if it’s advocacy. I know it’s some political type organization.’ ‘What organization is that?’ ‘I can’r remember,’ Idso said. ‘Some kind of society, I think’ ‘Was it the John Birch Society?’ Wirtschafter asked. Idso conceded that it was.” (p. 44)
Ross Gelbspan (1998) – The Heat Is on: The Climate Crisis, the Cover-Up, the Prescription – Basic Books (Perseus Books Group) – Pulitzer Price – ISBN-13: 978-0738200255 – 288 Págs
“In his collaborations with Sherwood Idso, Balling has received about $50,000 in research funding from Cyprus Minerals, as well as a separate grant of $4,900 from Kenneth Barr, who at the time was CEO of Cyprus. The German Coal Mining Association has provided about $80,000 in funding for Balling‘s work. The British Coal Corporation has kicked in another $75,000. Balling disclosed his industry funding under oath during the administrate hearings in Minessota in 1995.”
21st Annual Meeting Reports – Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, 01/07/2003 – http://www.ddponline.org/ddpnews/ddpjul03.htm
“The Petr Beckmann Award for ‘courage and achievement in the defense of scientific truth and freedom’ was presented to Dr. Sherwood Idso for his work demonstrating the fertilizing effect of increased carbon dioxide on the biosphere. He now publishes a remarkable on-line science journal at http://www.co2science.org.”
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.”
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
“Spin: CO2 emissions are good for the planet; coal is the best energy source we have. Affiliated Individuals: Patrick Michaels, Robert Balling, David Wojick, Sallie Baliunas, Sylvan Wittwer, John Daley, Sherwood Idso. Funding: Greening Earth Society receives its funding from the Western Fuels Association, which in turn receives its funding from its coal and utility company members.”
Ross Gelbspan (2005) – Boiling Point: How Politicians, Big Oil and Coal, Journalists, and Activists Have Fueled a Climate Crisis And What We Can Do to Avert Disaster – Basic Books – ISBN-13: 978-0465027620 – 288 Págs.
“During the 1990s, that effort had been spearheaded by Fred Palmer who, around the time of the Bush election, was hired as chief lobbyist for Peabody Energy. Prior to his hiring by Peabody, Palmer headed up the Western Fuels Association, a $400-million coal consortium that had funded a tiny handful of industry-funded ‘greenhouse skeptics’ who had long been dismissed by the mainstream scientific community. Throughout the 1990s, Palmer directed an extensive and extremely successful public relations offensive funded by the coal industry that used such prominent ‘greenhouse skeptics’ as Fred Singer, Pat Michaels, Sherwood Idso, and Robert Balling, among others.”
Myanna Lahsen (2005) – Technocracy, Democracy, and U.S. Climate Politics: The Need for Demarcations – Science Technology & Human Values 30:137-169 doi:10.1177/0162243904270710 – Center for Science and Technology Policy Research, University of Colorado; Instituto Nacional de Pesquisas Epaciais (INPE), Sao José dos Campos, Brazil
“Internal ICE documents [ref] outlined the strategies for the campaign, which included the following: “Reposition global warming as theory (not fact),” “target print and radio media for maximum effectiveness,” “achieve broad participation across the entire electric utility,” and “use a spokesman from the scientific community.” ICE enlisted Robert Balling, Sherwood Idso, and Patrick Michaels, described by the Science article as “three of a half-dozen or so outspoken greenhouse dissidents among United States scientists” (Science 1991, 1784). The ICE documents also described the organization’s strategy of targeting less-educated segments of the population, which ICE test marketing had identified as most receptive to its message. The company placed some of its ads during the shows of media pundit Rush Limbaugh.”
A.J. Challinor et al (2006) – Assessing the Vulnerability of Crop Productivity to Climate Change Thresholds Using an Integrated Crop-Climate Model – En: Hans Joachim Schellnhuber (Ed) (2006) – Avoiding Dangerous Climate Change – Cambridge University Press (2006) – NCAS Centre for Global Atmospheric Modelling, Department of Meteorology, University of Reading – – 4 autores
“Many studies have shown that increases in atmospheric concentrations of CO2 will benefit the yield of most crops, with the exception of those that have the C4 photosynthetic pathway, such as maize, millet and sugar cane (for example, Kimball, 1983; Idso and Idso, 1994). However, other aspects of climate change are expected to have a negative impact on the yield of annual crops, and these may partly, or entirely, offset the yield gains due to elevated CO2. For example, warmer mean seasonal temperatures reduce the duration from sowing to harvest of wheat. This results in a reduction in the amount of light captured by the crop leaf canopy, and hence biomass and yield at harvest decline with an increase in temperature (Mitchell et al., 1993; Wheeler et al., 1996a). Even where the sensitivity of crop yields to the seasonal mean climate is well known, large impacts on crop production can also occur when climate thresholds are transgressed for short periods (Parry et al., 2001).”
Jim Hoggan – Oil Companies Funding Friends of Science, Tim Ball takes the brunt – Desmogblog, 12/08/2006 – http://www.desmogblog.com/oil-companies-funding-friends-of-science
“The G&M says that FOS has taken undisclosed sums from Alberta oil and gas interests. The money was funneled through the Calgary Foundation, to the University of Calgary and on to the FOS though something called the “Science Education Fund.” All this appears to be orchestrated by Stephen Harper’s long-time political confidante and fishing buddy, U. Calgary Prof Dr. Barry Cooper. It seems the FOS has taken a page right out of the US climate change attack group’s playbook: funnel money through foundations and third party groups to “wipe the oil” off the dollars they receive. This comes as no surprise considering the FOS has been linked to some of the most notorious oil money-backed scientists in the US, including Drs. S. Fred Singer, Sallie Baliunas, Sherwood Idso, Willie Soon, Robert C. Balling and Pat Michaels.”
Wiki – Carbon Club – Wikipedia, 15/05/2008 – http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_Club
“En 1988, la Western Fuel Association a financé à hauteur de 250 000 dollars la réalisation d’une vidéo, The Greening of Planet Earth, qui contredit le point de vue « alarmiste » de la majorité de la communauté scientifique au sujet des causes et effets du réchauffement climatique. La théorie proposée dans cette vidéo est que le doublement des émissions de CO2 prévu au XXIe siècle augmentera la surface cultivable de 30 à 40%. Cette vidéo est distribuée par la Greening Earth Society, une association créée par la Western Fuels. Sherdwood Idso est le narrateur de cette vidéo. La Western Fuel Association a également lancé la revue World Climate Review, une tribune pour le point de vue des scientifiques ‘sceptiques‘. “
Information Council on the Environment – Wikipedia, 24/10/2008 -http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Council_on_the_Environment
“The Information Council on the Environment (ICE), was a U.S. organization created by the National Coal Association, the Western Fuels Association, and Edison Electrical Institute. ICE launched a $500,000 advertising and public relations campaign to, in ICE’s words, «reposition global warming as theory (not fact).» Patrick Michaels, Robert Balling and Sherwood B. Idso all lent their names in 1991 to its scientific advisory panel.”
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
“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.”
James Hoggan with Richard Littlemore (2009) – Climate Cover-up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming – Greystone Books – ISBN-13 : 978-1553654858 – 240 Págs.
“Parallel to the ICE operation, the Western Fuels Association also launched another ‘educational’ entity called ‘The Greening of Planet Earth, a 30-minute love note to carbon dioxide that is still available for viewing on You Tube. This became the first public appearance of a group of scientific experts made up of people like Sherwood Idso … The Western Fuels Association offered the video online in return for a small, tax-deducible donation to the Greening Earth Society, but it delivered hundreds of copies for free to public and university libraries across the country.” (p. 33)
Curtis A. Moore (2009) – A Package for Copenhagen: Existing Authorities in the United States for Responding to Global Warming – Curtis A. Moore, 10/11/2009 – Basel Action Network – Former counsel to the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works from 1978 to 1989 – http://healthandcleanair.org/newsletters/HCA_fall09.pdf
“Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow – Between 2004 and 2005, this organization receives $215,000 from ExxonMobil. Its advisory panel includes Sallie Baliunas, Robert Balling, Roger Bate, Sherwood Idso, Patrick Michaels, and Frederick Seitz, all of whom are affiliated with other ExxonMobil-funded organizations. [Union of Concerned Scientists, 2007, pp. 12 pdf file].”
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.’.”
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.”
Analysing the ‘900 papers supporting climate scepticism’: 9 out of top 10 authors linked to ExxonMobil – Carbon Brief, 15/04/2011 – https://www.carbonbrief.org/analysing-the-900-papers-supporting-climate-scepticism-9-out-of-top-10-authors-linked-to-exxonmobil
“Once you crunch the numbers, however, you find a good proportion of this new list is made up of a small network of individuals who co-author papers and share funding ties to the oil industry. There are numerous other names on the list with links to oil-industry funded climate sceptic think-tanks, including more from the International Policy Network (IPN) and the Marshall Institute.»
Mihai Andrei – 9 out of 10 top climate change deniers linked with Exxon Mobil – ZME Science, 10/05/2011 – http://www.zmescience.com/ecology/climate-change-papers-exxon-mobil/
“A recent analysis conducted by Carbon Brief investigated no less than 900 published papers, all of which cast doubts on climate change, or even speak against it. After concluding this investigation, they found that 9 out of 10 of the most prolific ones had some sort of connection with Exxon Mobil. You can find a link to these papers at the Global Warming Policy Foundation. The results showed that out of the 938 papers cited, 186 of them were written by only ten men, and foremost among them was Dr Sherwood B Idso, who personally authored 67 of them. Idso is the president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, an ExxonMobil funded think tank. The second most prolific was Dr Patrick J Michaels, a senior fellow at the Cato Institute, who receives roughly 40% of his funding from the oil industry.”
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.”.”
James Lawrence Powell (2011) – The Inquisition of Climate Science – Columbia University Press – National Science Board – ISBN-13: 978-0231157186 – 240 Págs.
“That same year [1997], Baliunas won the Petr Beckmann Award for her ‘devastating critique of the global warming hoax’ [ref: Sourcewatch]. Doctors for Disaster Preparedness, another admirably named organization, which has close ties with the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, gives the award for ‘courage and achievement in defense of scientific truth and freedom,’ Winners of the Beckmann award are a Who’s Who of denial, including Sherwood Idso, Robert Jastrow, Arthur. B. Robinson, S. Fred Singer, and Baliunas coauthor, Willie Soon.»
Richard Littlemore – Prospective donors listed by gifts from 2011 – The Heartland Institute, 15/01/2012 – http://www.heatland.org/TheList2011.xhtml
“Given that donations to Heartland count as «charitable» deductions, it would be interesting to know if anyone is claiming a second deduction on Heartland’s follow-on «donation» to Idso’s CSCDGC. For that matter, is there a third potential deduction when Idso passes the money along to Robert Ferguson at the Science and Public Policy Institute – another policy hothouse whose «educational» output appears to be exclusively PR that aligns closely to the interests of Heartland’s major funders … Neither Idso nor Ferguson (who set up his SPP Institute with foundational funding from Exxon) have taken a prominent role in defending Heartland in the past week, although Christopher Monckton, the SPP Institute’s Chief Policy Advisor and arguably the most discredited climate change denier in the English language, penned a guest post that ran on the Heartland PR site, WUWT.”
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 and 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 and 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.»
Andrew C. Revkin – The Heartland Files and the Climate Fight – Dot Earth – The New York Times, 15/02/2012 – http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/02/15/documents-appear-to-reveal-broad-effort-to-amplify-climate-uncertainty/
«Idso: … ‘Furthermore, I am surprised that you seem to either not recognize or care about the fact that knowledge of one’s funding adds absolutely nothing to a scientific debate anyway. Rather, that information is generally only used by agenda-driven individuals and groups as an attempt to shift the focus away from where it should be — on the merits of the issues. Unfortunately, such pursuits have become commonplace in our world today; and these tactics are utilized by those who care less about science and more about squelching free thinking and scientific debate when opinions are presented that differ from their own. These are the types of people that you should truly be concerned about — the ones who evaluate funding sources as a means of judging the correctness of an issue. In reality, such schemes only demonstrate their inability to defend their positions on sound principles and logical persuasion and discussion. In the spirit of true scientific debate, I urge you to return to a discussion based on the pertinent science.’.”
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 – https://archive.thinkprogress.org/fossil-fuel-backed-group-is-behind-the-latest-climate-change-denier-campaign-622ce1c16562/
“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.”
Craig D. Idso, Robert M. Carter and S. Fred Singer (2013) – Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science – Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) – 18/09/2013 – – http://climatechangereconsidered.org/ccr-2013/ – autores
Robert Ferguson (Science and Public Policy Institute) – Sourcewatch, 24/09/2013 – http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Bob_Ferguson
“Robert E. Ferguson, aka Bob Ferguson, is the President of the Science and Public Policy Institute (SPPI), an organization that promotes the views of global warming skeptics and was founded in mid-2007. However, his salary appears to come through the Idsos’ Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.”
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.».”
John Mashey – Anti-Science Associations: Rand Paul, Jane Orient, Art Robinson, Willie Soon And Friends, Plus HHS Nominee Tom Price & Funder Robert Mercer – Desmogblog, 23/02/2015 – https://www.desmogblog.com/2015/02/23/anti-science-associations-rand-paul-jane-orient-art-robinson-willie-soon-and-friends
“Anthony Watts – One of the very first global warming films: ‘The Greenhouse Conspiracy’ – Watts Up With That – 11/03/2016 – https://archive.is/dWw7U#selection-501.0-503.1
“Producer & Director: Hilary Lawson Scientists featured: Patrick Michaels University of Virginia Richard Lindzen Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Reginald Newell (1931-2002) Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Tom Wigley University of East Anglia, Robert Balling Arizona University, Roy Spencer NASA Space Flight Center, Sherwood Idso US Conservation Labs, Stephen Schneider (1945-2010) US Center for Atmospheric Research David Aubrey Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, Julian Paren British Antarctic Survey, John Mitchell Meteorological Office, Peter Jonas University of Manchester, John Houghton Meteorological Office ”
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
“In a 2014 radio interview, Idso was asked if he had “any ties to any energy companies.” He responded: “No I don’t, actually.” In a statement to DeSmog, Idso said he had been hired by Peabody to develop the company’s response to the Department of Energy’s Voluntary Greenhouse Gas reporting program. Idso was appointed Peabody’s director of environmental science in 2001. He said he left the company the following year but continued to work as a consultant “for a few more years” to prepare annual reports as part of the greenhouse gas reporting program … He added: “Our relationship in helping Peabody report their greenhouse gases has been over for a few years now and they owe us no money.” ”
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. The Center’s stated mission is to “separate reality from rhetoric in the emotionally-charged debate that swirls around the subject of carbon dioxide and global change.” “The scientific evidence supporting that position [that CO2 is a pollutant] is tenuous at best,” Idso said, pointing to the reliance on computer models, as opposed to real-world observations. Idso also claimed there are three chief “benefits” of CO2 in the atmosphere. That is, it “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.”.”
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.”
Publicaciones
Sherwood B. Idso (1980) – The Climatological Significance of a Doubling of Earth’s Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Concentration – Science 207:1462–1463 doi:10.1126/science.207.4438.1462 – U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory, Phoenix, Arizona
“There thus appears to be a major discrepancy between current theory and experiment relative to the effects of carbon dioxide on climate. Until this discrepancy is resolved, we should not be too quick to limit our options in the selection of future energy alternatives.”
Sherwood B. Idso (1980) – CO2-induced global warming: a skeptic’s view of potential climate change – Climate Research 10:69–82 doi:10.3354/cr010069 – U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory, Phoenix, Arizona
“These studies all suggest that a 300 to 600 ppm doubling of the atmosphere’s CO2 concentration could raise the planet’s mean surface air temperature by only about 0.4°C. Even this modicum of warming may never be realized, however, for it could be negated by a number of planetary cooling forces that are intensified by warmer temperatures and by the strengthening of biological processes that are enhanced by the same rise in atmospheric CO2 concentration that drives the warming.”
Sherwood B. Idso (1983) – On the magnitude of the CO2 greenhouse effect – Applied Energy 14:227-232 doi:10.1016/0306-2619(83)90065-X – Institute for Biospheric Research
«Empirical evidence indicates that the magnitude of global warming to be expected from the release of CO2 into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels has been greatly overestimated by scientists employing general circulation models of the atmosphere. Indeed, real-world data suggest that increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 are actually to be desired.”
Sherwood B. Idso (1987) – A Clarification of My Position on the CO2/Climate Connection – Climatic Change 10:81-86 doi:10.1007/BF00140558 – 01/01/1987 – U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory
“This final result is essentially negligible compared to the background climatic noise of the past century (Idso, 1983a). Indeed, it is so small that one is driven to seriously consider the possibility of an inverse CO2 greenhouse effect in some parts of the world, as I have described in a number of other papers (Idso, 1982a, 1983b, c, 1984a, b) … it would seem to me to be premature to predict anything relative to future climatic effects of atmospheric CO2 increases other than that the global mean air temperature of the next century will probably not be much different from that of the past century.”
Sherwood Idso (1992) – The Greening of Planet Earth – CO2 science – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ep5ptrPN6ns
“A professionally produced documentary that examines the beneficial effects of carbon dioxide, including increased crop yields and vegetative growth”
Willie Soon, Sallie Baliunas, Sherwood B. Idso, Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, Eric S. Posmentier (2002) – Modeling climatic effects of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions: unknowns and uncertainties. Reply to Risbey (2002) – Climate Research 22:187-188 – Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change; Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware – http://www.int-res.com/articles/cr2002/22/c022p187.pdf
«We conclude by restating 2 important points from our article: (1) ‘Our review points out the enormous scientific difficulties facing the calculation of climatic effects of added CO2 in a GCM, but it does not claim to disprove a significant anthropogenic influence on global climate’; and that (2) ‘the proper use of a climate model is to challenge existing formulations (i.e. a climate model is built to test proposed mechanisms of climate change) rather than to predict unconstrained scenarios of change by adding CO2 to the atmosphere.»
Willie Soon and Sallie Baliunas, Craig Idso and Sherwood Idso, David R. Legates (2003) – Reconstructing Climatic and Environmental Changes of the Past 1000 Years: A Reappraisal – Energy & Environment – Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change; Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware
“Many records reveal that the 20th century is likely not the warmest nor a uniquely extreme climatic period of the last millennium, although it is clear that human activity has significantly impacted some local environments.”
Willie Soon, Sallie Baliunas, Sherwood B. Idso, Kirill Ya. Kondratyev, Eric S. Posmentier (2003) – Modeling climatic effects of anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions: unknowns and uncertainties. Reply to Karoly et al. (2003) – Climate Research 24:93-94 – Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics; Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change; Center for Climatic Research, University of Delaware – http://www.int-res.com/articles/cr2003/24/c024p093.pdf
“Systematic errors in observational data also hinder meaningful linkage of observations to causes. Referring to sources of error such as urbanization of studied areas, changes in measurement practices, and so on, Hegerl et al. (2001), for example, have recently concluded that the effect of systematic instrumental error cannot be assessed at present.”
Craig D. Idso, Sherwood B. Idso, Robert M. Carter and S. Fred Singer (2013) – Climate Change Reconsidered II: Biological Impacts – Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC) – http://heartland.org/media-library/pdfs/CCR-IIb/Full-Report.pdf
“Most notably, its authors say IPCC has exaggerated the negative impacts of global warming and rising atmospheric CO2 levels: ‘We find no net harm to the global environment or to human health, and often find the opposite: net benefits to plants, including important food crops, and to animals and human health.’.”
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