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Deniers:Organisations:Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change
http://exxonsecrets.org/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=24
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Website: http://www.co2science.org/science.htm
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 Electric, 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).
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[edit] July 25th, 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." 25 July, 2001 Source:Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change website 4/04
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[edit] November 3rd, 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
[edit] July 29th, 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
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[edit] Funding
Total funding to Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change from Exxon corporations since 1998: $US 100,000
1998
$10,000 ExxonMobil Corporate Giving
Source:ExxonMobil 1998 grants list
2000
$15,000 ExxonMobil Foundationproject support
Source:ExxonMobil Foundation 2000 IRS 990
2003
$40,000 ExxonMobil FoundationClimate Change Activities
Source:ExxonMobil 2003 Corporate Giving Report
2005
$25,000 ExxonMobil Foundation
Source:ExxonMobil 2005 DIMENSIONS Report (Corporate Giving)
2006
$10,000 ExxonMobil Corporate GivingDISCREPANCY: 2005 Corporate Giving Report: no description. IRS 990 form 2005: Climate Change Activities.
Source:ExxonMobil Corporate Giving Report 2006