Sherwood Idso | |
|---|---|
| Born | June 12, 1942 (age 82) |
| Died | June 12th, 2024 |
| Resting place | Mesa Cemetery |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Minnesota |
| Awards | Arthur S. Flemming Award (1977), Petr Beckmann Award (2003) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Climatology, Ecology, Soil Science |
| Institutions | University of Minnesota, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change |
| Thesis | The photosynthetic response of plants to their environment: a holocoenotic method of analysis (1967) |
Sherwood B. Idso (born June 12, 1942)[1] was the president of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, which rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. Previously he was a Research Physicist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Agricultural Research Service at the U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory in Phoenix, Arizona, where he worked since June 1967. He was also closely associated with Arizona State University over most of this period, serving as an adjunct professor in the Departments of Geology, Geography, and Botany and Microbiology. His two sons, Craig and Keith, are, respectively, the founder[2] and vice president[3] of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change.
Idso was the author or co-author of over 500 publications including the books Carbon Dioxide: Friend or Foe? (1982) and Carbon Dioxide and Global Change: Earth in Transition (1989). He served on the editorial board of the international journal Agricultural and Forest Meteorology from 1973 to 1993 and since 1993 has served on the editorial board of Environmental and Experimental Botany. Over the course of his career, he has been an invited reviewer of manuscripts for 56 different scientific journals and 17 different funding agencies, representing an unusually large array of disciplines. He is an ISI highly cited researcher.[4][5]