Sherwood Idso

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Sherwood B. Idso (born December 6, 1942 in Thief River Falls , Minnesota ) is an American limnologist . He was a physical aquatic scientist with the US Department of Agriculture and several research institutions. He was an associate professor at the University of Arizona at Tucson, studying stratification stability and vertical water exchange in lakes.

Idso denies man-made global warming and was associated with the now defunct George C. Marshall Institute . Because of this connection, the Union of Concerned Scientists has a list of "scientific spokespersons" for front-line organizations financed by the ExxonMobil oil company . Idso is also one of the scientists who had financial ties to companies in the fossil energy sector.

In the 1990s, Idso was, alongside Robert Balling and Patrick J. Michaels, one of three key advisors to the Information Council on the Environment , a climate denial organization set up by the coal industry and, in particular, the Western Fuels Association , whose main goal was to have scientists as seemingly neutral speakers reinterpret global warming from fact to mere theory. He also worked with the Greening Earth Society , another front group created by the Western Fuels Association, and explained in an "educational video" for that organization that increasing the carbon dioxide levels in the earth's atmosphere would make the earth green.

Together with his two sons Craig and Keith Idso, Idso runs the "Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change" (co2science.org), which denies human-made global warming. It was financed , among other things, by the coal company Peabody Energy and, contrary to scientific research, claimed that carbon dioxide was not a threat, but an "elixir of life". In particular, Idso claims that all climate change is largely due to natural processes. He also points to the possible positive consequences of climate change , which in his opinion would outweigh the negative.

In a book on the denial of man-made global warming , Idso is singled out as a representative example of a group of "scientific experts" who "became famous for their willingness to argue against climate research on behalf of the fossil fuel lobby".

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  1. ↑ James Lawrence Powell: The Inquisition of Climate Science. New York 2012, p. 101.
  2. ↑ James Hoggan, Richard Littlemore: Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming . Greystone Books 2009, p. 106.
  3. ↑ Naomi Oreskes : My facts are better than your facts , in: Peter Howlett, Mary S. Morgan (Eds.), How Well Do Facts Travel? The Dissemination of Reliable Knowledge . Cambridge University Press 2011, 136–166, especially p. 142 and 147.
  4. ↑ Biggest US coal company funded dozens of groups questioning climate change . In: Newspaper , July 13, 2016. Retrieved July 12, 2019.
  5. ↑ James Hoggan, Richard Littlemore: Climate Cover-Up: The Crusade to Deny Global Warming . Greystone Books 2009, p. 33.
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SURNAME Idso, Sherwood
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Idso, Sherwood B.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American limnologist
DATE OF BIRTH December 6, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Thief River Falls , Minnesota