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Idso Biased
The Idsos are paid by big oil
Exxon Secrets.org, 8/3/06, Corrupt Idsos, Corrupt co2science.con website , http://misc.mailarchive.ca/survivalism/2006-
08/0423.html
Arizona State University Office of Cimatology
Arizona State University Office of Climatology has received $49,500 from ExxonMobil since 1998. Associated: Robert C.
Balling Jr., Sherwood Idso, father of Craig and Keith Idso, is an adjunct professor at the ASU Office of Climatology. All of
the Idsos are associated with the (Greening Earth Society) Western Fuels Association and the (Greening Earth Society)
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (associated TASSC A. Alan Moghissi).
All the Idsos are funded by the Western Fuels Association and Exxon
Eco Syn, No date given, http://www.ecosyn.us/adti/Corrupt_Idsos.html
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Center for the Study of CO2 and Climate Change
When the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change's web site debuted September 23,1998, The Western
Fuels Association-funded Greening Earth Society issued the press release announcing The Center's new site. Fred Palmer, head
of Western Fuels, stated in the release, "The Center's viewpoint is a needed antidote to the misleading and usually erroneous
scientific claims emanating from the Federal scientific establishment and adopted by leading politicians, such as Vice President
Al Gore." The Center has since tried to distance itself from the Western Fuels Association, but still regularly publishes articles
on the Greening Earth Society website. The Center is run by Keith Idso and Craig Idso, along with their father, Sherwood Idso.
Both Idso brothers have been on the Western Fuels payroll at one time or another. Keith Idso, then a doctoral candidate at the
University of Arizona, was a paid expert witness for Western Fuels Association at a 1995 Minnesota Public Utilities
commission hearing in St. Paul, MN, along with MIT's Richard Lindzen, Patrick Michaels, and Robert Balling. (The Heat is
On). According to news from Basin Electric, a Western Fuels Association member, Craig Idso produced a report, "The
Greening of Planet Earth." Its Progression from Hypothesis to Theory," in January 1998 for the Western Fuels Association.
(The Center also came into being in January 1998, according to information provided by the Center). (Basin Electric Latest
News no date given)
Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change has received $65,000 from ExxonMobil since 1998.
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Wildfires DA
A. Increased CO2 alters vital growth patterns in weeds – These alterations
inherently make them more combustable and will spark wide-spread wild fires
on a scale never seen.
Tom Christopher, studied and frequently writes about horticulture for the New York times, June 29, 2008, works cited from Lewis
Ziska, a –weed ecologist with the Agriculture Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’, accessed through Lexis
The spread of cheatgrass has been widely attributed to the degradation of native grasslands by overgrazing -- cattle prefer and
selectively eat the native grasses -- and more especially to its exceptional combustibility. Periodic fires are an integral part of
the rangeland ecology, but when the rangeland is still dominated by native grasses, fires occur in some areas at average
intervals of every 60 to 110 years. In areas overrun by cheatgrass, however, fire sweeps through every three to five years. While
cheatgrass can tolerate such frequent burns, the native flora cannot. Cheatgrass's combustibility is inherent in the plant's pattern
of growth. Sprouting in the fall, it resumes growth at winter's end to mature and set seed in early summer, whereupon the plant
dies, leaving a tuft of dry, highly flammable leaves through the following dry season. Ziska and his colleagues discovered,
though, that the weed's flammability seems to have been greatly augmented by the increases in atmospheric CO2 that occurred
during the period of cheatgrass's spread through the West. The scientists grew the plant at four concentrations of CO2: at 270
p.p.m. (the ambient level at the beginning of the 19th century, before the Industrial Revolution), at 320 p.p.m. (a 1960s level),
370 p.p.m. (a 1990s level) and 420 p.p.m. (the approximate level predicted for 2020 in all the climate-change panel's estimates).
What they found was that an increase of CO2 equivalent to that occurring from 1800 until today raised the total mass of
material (the biomass) each cheatgrass plant produced by almost 70 percent. In addition, the composition of the cheatgrass
changed as the CO2 level increased, the tissues becoming more carbon-rich so that the plant leaves and stems are less
susceptible to decay. In a natural setting, this would mean that the dead material would persist longer, adding yet more fuel for
wildfire. More fuel, with a longer life -- Ziska says that the rise in greenhouse gases we have already achieved may have played
a decisive role in the spread of a weed that has already transformed the ecology of the Western United States. The situation
seems likely to worsen too. The cheatgrass that Ziska grew at the CO2 level equal to that projected for 2020 increased the
plant's biomass by another 18 percent above current levels. Global climate change, it seems, will further stoke the rangeland
wildfires.
B. Forest fires hurt biodiversity, crush corporations, deplete water, and erode soil
World Wildlife Foundation, 9/12/06
http://www.panda.org/about_wwf/what_we_do/forests/problems/forest_fires/index.cfm
The immediate impact of forest fires can be devastating to human communities and forest ecosystems alike. Fires can alter the
structure and composition of forests, opening up areas to invasion by fast-colonizing alien species and threaten biological
diversity. Buildings, crops and plantations are destroyed and lives can be lost. For companies, fire can mean the destruction of
assets; for communities, besides loss of an important resource base, fire can also lead to environmental degradation through
impacts on water cycles, soil fertility and biodiversity; and for farmers, fire may mean the loss of crops or even livelihoods.
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Higher CO2 levels make weeds and poison ivy grow stronger. Weeds produce
twice as much pollen and poison ivy is more virulent.
The New York Times, Tom Christopher, horticultural and environmental topics, 6/29/08 “Can Weeds Help Solve the Climate
Crisis?” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29weeds-t.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1&ref=magazine
But enhancing CO2 levels, Ziska has found, not only augments the growth rate of many common weeds, increasing their
size and bulk; it also changes their chemical composition. When he grew ragweed plants in an atmosphere with 600 p.p.m. of
CO2 (the level projected for the end of this century in that same climate-change panel “B2 scenario”), they produced twice as
much pollen as plants grown in an atmosphere with 370 p.p.m. (the ambient level in the year 1998). This is bad news for
allergy sufferers, especially since the pollen harvested from the CO2-enriched chamber proved far richer in the protein
that causes the allergic reaction. Poison ivy has also demonstrated not only more vigorous growth at higher levels of
CO2 but also a more virulent form of urushiol, the oil in its tissue that provokes a rash.
Weeds benefiting from increased CO2 will change the ecology and landscapes
of much of the eastern US in the next 3 decades. It has already started.
The New York Times, Tom Christopher, horticultural and environmental topics, 6/29/08 “Can Weeds Help Solve the Climate
Crisis?” http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/29/magazine/29weeds-t.html?pagewanted=3&_r=1&ref=magazine
Subsequent speakers got down to cases. Andrew McDonald, an agricultural scientist at Cornell University, had used the
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s high projections for CO2 levels at the middle and end of the century to create an
atlas of potential weed migrations in cornfields in the Eastern United States. If these projections prove accurate, Kentucky, by
the end of the next one to three decades, should have a climate (and weed flora) resembling that of present-day North
Carolina; by century’s end, it will have shifted to a regime more like that of Louisiana. Delaware, over the same period,
will be transformed to something first like North Carolina and then Georgia, while Pennsylvania will metamorphose
into West Virginia and then North Carolina. Florida will become something unprecedented in this country. Field
observations indicate that these transformations are already under way: another speaker pointed out that kudzu, “the
weed that ate the South,” has already migrated up to central Illinois and by 2015 could be extending its tendrils into
Michigan’s Upper Peninsula.
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