Craig Idso
| Craig D. Idso | |
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| Born | United States |
| Residence | United States |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Agronomy, Climatology, Geography |
| Institutions | Arizona State University, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change |
| Alma mater | Arizona State University, University of Nebraska–Lincoln |
| Thesis | Amplitude and phase changes in the seasonal atmospheric CO2 cycle in the Northern Hemisphere (1998) |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Balling |
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Website www.co2science.org |
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Craig D. Idso is the founder, former president and current chairman of the board of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. He is the brother of Keith E. Idso and son of Sherwood B. Idso.
After growing up in Tempe Arizona, Craig Idso received his B.S. in Geography from Arizona State University, his M.S. in Agronomy from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln in 1996, and his Ph.D. in Geography from Arizona State University in 1998. His doctoral thesis was titled, Amplitude and phase changes in the seasonal atmospheric CO2 cycle in the Northern Hemisphere.
Craig Idso remains actively involved in several aspects of global and environmental change, including climatology and meteorology, along with their impacts on agriculture. 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. His main focus is on the environmental benefits of carbon dioxide. In addition, he has lectured in Meteorology at Arizona State University, and in Physical Geography at Mesa Community College and Chandler-Gilbert Community College.
An outspoken global warming skeptic known for claiming that rising CO2 levels will have mainly positive environmental effects, Idso attributes his views on global warming to not only his father, who has also long questioned the seriousness of global warming, but also to a confrontation that occurred between his father and then-Tennessee senator Al Gore. According to Idso, "What really brought me into the issue was when Al Gore went after my father when [Gore] was in the Senate and he rigged a Senate sub-committee meeting to go after my father and discredit his work."
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