Craig Idso

Craig D. Idso is Chairman, founder and former President of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, a contrarian Arizona-based group funded in part by ExxonMobil. He is the son of its president, Sherwood B. Idso, and the brother of its vice president, Keith E. Idso.

Education
Craig Idso's degrees:
 * 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; his thesis was on the amplitude of the difference between winter and summer atmopheric CO2 levels, and his thesis advisor was ASU's global warming skeptic professor Robert C. Balling, Jr..

Contrarian think tanks
Idso is listed as Chairman of CO2Science and Science Advisor to the Science and Public Policy Institute.

No academic position
As of 2011, Idso is not affiliated with a university.

Fossil fuel industry employment
Idso was "Director of Environmental Science at Peabody Energy in St. Louis, Missouri".

Professional societies membership
Idso "is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, Arizona-Nevada Academy of Sciences, Association of American Geographers, Ecological Society of America, and The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi."

(Membership in such societies is often open to anyone who has an interest in the subject, is willing to pay dues, and has some relevant education.)

Info from CO2Science website bio
"Dr. Idso's current research focus is on carbon sequestration, but he remains actively involved in several other aspects of global and environmental change, including climatology and meteorology, along with their impacts on agriculture. Dr. Idso has published scientific articles on issues related to data quality, the growing season, the seasonal cycle of atmospheric CO2, world food supplies, coral reefs, and urban CO2 concentrations, the latter of which he investigated via a National Science Foundation grant as a faculty researcher in the Office of Climatology at Arizona State University.  In addition, he has lectured in Meteorology at Arizona State University, and in Physical Geography at Mesa and Chandler-Gilbert Community Colleges."

Speaking Engagement at 2011 American Legislative Exchange Council Annual Meeting
Idso was a featured speaker at the 2011 American Legislative Exchange Council Annual Meeting, speaking at a Workshop that was to be titled "Warming Up to Climate Change: The Many Benefits of Increased Atmospheric CO2." The title was later changed to "Benefit Analysis of CO2" He was joined in that workshop by two other speakers and fellow climate skeptics, Roger Helmer and Robert Ferguson. The workshop was hosted by ALEC's Energy, Environment and Agriculture Task Force.

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Articles and Presentations by Idso

 * Craig Idso,Terry Dunleavy, ""Carbon Dioxide, Global Warming, and Coral Reefs: Prospects for the Future", Presentation to the Heartland Institute's International Conference on Climate Change (2009), March 9, 2009. (PowerPoint)