CO2 Science Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change

Link to CO2 Science website.

Dedicated to discovering and disseminating scientific information pertaining to the effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment on climate and the biosphere. Here is a link to a printable (pdf) brochure about the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change. Print this out and hand it to your co-workers, friends, neighbors. Most importantly, hand it to your kids’ teachers!! Then offer to purchase and donate to the school a set of the INVALUABLE educational DVD’s that are available on the CO2 Science website.

Excellent educational CO2 DVDs available for teachers and the general public.

Objective reviews of scientific research reports on the biological and climatological effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment. This website is a treasure trove of scientific information, without the bias of alarmists and media hype. Very well organized into sections covering a wide variety of important topics.

Our Carbon Sequestration Commentaries deal with the developing field of research that seeks to elucidate ways in which the storing of carbon in living and dead organic matter can be enhanced. In this section we report on natural inducements to remove CO2 from the air and sequester its carbon in vegetative biomass and soil organic matter that are provided by the ongoing rise in the air’s CO2 content. We also report on artificial inducements to achieve this goal that are provided by anthropogenic initiatives.

In our World Temperatures section, patrons may calculate temperature trends for the entire globe or for selected regions of the globe using four different data sets. Output includes a graphical representation of temperature anomalies over a user-selected time interval, as well as access to these data in tabular form. A linear regression line of the temperature trend over time is also displayed along with its associated statistics, which can further be analyzed for significance at the 95% and 99% levels.

We also maintain a section of U.S. Climate Data. Here, patrons may calculate temperature and precipitation trends for 1221 locations in the conterminous United States using the United States Historical Climatology Network data set. On a weekly basis we select and highlight one of these stations and post it on our web site as the Temperature Record of the Week.

In the section on Plant Growth Data, we tabulate the results of experimental determinations of plant growth responses to atmospheric CO2 enrichment. These data are listed alphabetically according to plant names (both scientific and common) in individual tables.

In our Global Change Laboratory section, we describe simple experiments that illustrate the effects of atmospheric CO2 enrichment and depletion on vegetative growth and development. To this end, we utilize the “Poor Man’s Biosphere” technique of experimentation pioneered by the President of the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, Dr. Sherwood B. Idso, where plants are grown inside sealed aquariums or other containers maintained at different CO2 concentrations. We have developed a number of such experiments that can be performed by nearly anyone anywhere in the world at very little expense, and we invite schools and individuals to utilize them in their classrooms and homes.