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{{#badges: Climate change}}The '''Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change''' (CSCDGC) was founded in 1998. It states on its website that its mission is to distribute "factual reports and sound commentary on new developments in the world-wide scientific quest to determine the climatic and biological consequences , one of the ongoing rise in the air's CO2 content" [http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/about/mission.jsp]. ''Mother Jones'' magazine lists the Center as one of the 's 2009 [[global warming skeptic]] "Dirty Dozen of Climate Change Denial."<refname=mojo12>Josh Harkinson, [http://motherjones.com/environment/2009/12/dirty-dozen-climate-change-denial-11-idso-family The Dirty Dozen of Climate Change Denial: No. 8: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (A.K.A. The Idso Family)], Mother Jones, December 4, 2009, Accessed August 26, 2010.</ref>. Founded in 1998 by members of the [[Idso family]], its income has burgeoned in recent years.

[[Donald Paul Hodel]], chairman of [[Summit Power Group]] is listed among the "scientific advisors" to the Center.<ref>[http://www.co2science.org/about/sab/hodel.php "CO2 Science,"] Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change website, accessed July 2008</ref>==Nonprofit infostatus==

==The Center and CO2Science are - related, but a separate entitiesentity==Craig Idso's group CO2Science is also a 501(c)(3), as well; it is EIN 20-2778308, at a Gilbert AZ address; it , and was founded in 2006.<ref>(Though if I read the 990s correctly, it reports income starting in 2005: 2005-2009 incomes were: 68k, 88k, 38k, 66k, and 57k.)</ref>, <ref>[http://www2.guidestar.org/organizations/20-2778308/co2science.aspx Guidestar on CO2Science]</ref>

[[ExxonMobil]]'s 2001 list of groups it funded listed a $10,000 contribution to the CSCDGC Center 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>

StopExxon.org reports CSCDGC the Center has received $90,000 from ExxonMobil between 1998 and 2005 comprising: <ref name=es>"[http://stopexxon.unfortu.net/html/orgfactsheet.php?id=24 FACTSHEET: Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Center for the Study of CO2 and Climate Change]", Exxonsecrets.org, accessed June 2007.</ref>

According to MediaTransparency, in 1999 the Center received $50,000 from the [[Sarah Scaife Foundation]] in 1999, and in 2003 another $50,000 (for "General operating support") in 2003<ref>[http://mediamattersaction.org/transparency/organization/Center_for_the_Study_of_Carbon_Dioxide_and_Global_Change link, accessed 2011-03-31</ref>; but this information may conflict with the Center's 2003 "Grants and contributions" data Form 990 numbers above. ==Other fossil fuel ties=====1999, Western Fuels Association===In October 1999 Craig D. Idso and Keith E. Idso mentioned that they had "recently completed a project commissioned by the [[Greening Earth Society]] entitled "Forecasting World Food Supplies: The Impact of the Rising Atmospheric CO2 Concentration," which we presented at the Second Annual [[Dixy Lee Ray]] Memorial Symposium held in Washington, DC on 31 August - 2 September 1999." <ref>Craig D. Idso and Keith E. Idso, "[http://www.co2science.org/scripts/CO2ScienceB2C/articles/V2/N19/EDIT.jsp Give Peace a Chance by Giving Plants a Chance]", Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Volume 2, Number 19: 1 October 1999. </ref> The [[Greening Earth Society]], a front group of the [[Western Fuels Association]].===2006, Oil industry business: Cenospheres===Craig Idso incorporated Cenospheres.net, serving the oilfield industry, in 2006.[http://starpas.azcc.gov/scripts/cgiip.exe/WService=wsbroker1/names-detail.p?name-id=12785910&type=CORPORATION AZ Corp Comm]