{{#badges: AEX|Climate change}}The '''Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change''', is one of ''Mother Jones'' magazine's 2009 [[global warming skeptic]] "Dirty Dozen of Climate Change Denial"<ref name=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. It now pays [[Science and Public Policy Institute]] head [[Robert Ferguson]] a generous salary - $312,500 in 2010<ref>Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change 2010 IRS form 990, on Guidestar.org (EIN 86-0902777)</ref> - SPPI's nonprofit status having been revoked.
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