Craig D. Idso
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Craig D. Idso is the founder, president and current chairman of the board of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change,<ref name=co2science>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name="sppi">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> a group which receives funding from ExxonMobil and Peabody Energy and which promotes climate change denial. He is the brother of Keith E. Idso and son of Sherwood B. Idso.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Early life and education
After growing up in Tempe, Arizona, Idso received his B.S. in Geography from Arizona State University, his M.S. in Agronomy from the University of Nebraska–Lincoln in 1996,<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> and his Ph.D. in geography from Arizona State University in 1998.<ref name=co2science/><ref name="sppi"/> His doctoral thesis was titled Amplitude and phase changes in the seasonal atmospheric Template:CO2 cycle in the Northern Hemisphere.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Career
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 [[carbon dioxide|Template:CO2]], world food supplies, coral reefs, and urban Template: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.<ref name=co2science/><ref name="sppi"/>
He is the former Director of Environmental Science at Peabody Energy,<ref name=co2science/><ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and a science adviser to the climate change denialist group The Science and Public Policy Institute,<ref name="sppi"/> which also receives funding from ExxonMobil.
Idso is a lead author of the reports of the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change (NIPCC),<ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref> a project sponsored by the Heartland Institute.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> An unauthorized release of documents indicate Idso received $11,600 per month in 2012 from the Heartland Institute.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>
He is a member of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Geophysical Union, American Meteorological Society, Association of American Geographers, Ecological Society of America, and The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi.<ref name=co2science/><ref name="sppi"/>
Selected publications
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