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==Funding==
On it's website [[Sherwood B. Idso]] writes that "our typical response is that we never discuss our funding. Why? Because we believe that ideas about the way the world of nature operates should stand or fall on their own merits, irrespective of the source of support for the person or organization that produces them... It is self-evident, for example, that one need not know from whence a person's or organization's funding comes in order to evaluate the reasonableness of what they say, if - and this is a very important qualification - one carefully studies the writings of people on both sides of the issue."<ref name="funding">Sherwood B. Idso, [http://www.co2science.org/about/position/funding.php "What Motivates the Center for the Study ofCarbon Dioxide and Global Change?"], Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, accessed April 2008.</ref>
The Center previously stated on its website that it "accepts corporate, foundation and individual donations" but does not disclose who funds it. <ref> Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, "[https://secure.imsure.com/scripts/Template/MainPage.jsp?Page=Contribute&MerchantCode=CO2ScienceB2C Contribute To The Center]", accessed June 2007. </ref>
Sherwood Idso confirmed that Exxon "made some donations to us a few times in the past" but attributed this to the fact that "they probably liked what we typically had to say about the issue. But what we had to say then, and what we have to say now, came not, and comes not, from them or any other organization or person."<ref name="funding"/>
ExxonMobil's 2001 list of groups it funded listed a $10,000 contribution to the CSCDGC in 2001. Center for Science in the Public Interest, "[http://www.cspinet.org/integrity/nonprofits/center_for_the_study_of_carbon_dioxide_and_global_change.html Center for the study of carbon dioxide and global change]", ''Integrity in Science'', undated, accessed March 2004. <ref>Exxon, [http://web.archive.org/web/20011031010631/www.exxonmobil.com/contributions/public_info.html Public Information and Policy Research]", archived file from October 2001, accessed June 2007. </ref>
