a study in Nature which concluded, contrary to a report the National Academy of Sciences released the previous year, that rising CO2 levels would increase streamflow. The study's authors argued that the NAS report came to the opposite conclusion because it neglected the effect of rising CO2 levels on plants. In the 1997 book, Global Warming: The Science and the Politics Idso said: "I find no compelling reason to believe that the earth will necessarily experience any global warming as a consequence of the ongoing rise in the atmosphere's carbon dioxide concentration." In the 1998 paper, -induced global warming: a skeptic's view of potential climate change Idso said: "Several of these cooling forces have individually been estimated to be of equivalent magnitude, but of opposite sign, to the typically predicted greenhouse effect of a doubling of the air’s content, which suggests to me that little net temperature change will ultimately result from the ongoing buildup of in Earth's atmosphere." Awards 1977 - Arthur S. Flemming Award in recognition of "his innovative research into fundamental aspects of agricultural-climatological interrelationships affecting food production and the identification of achievable research goals whose attainment could significantly aid in assessment and improvement of world food supplies." 2003 - Petr Beckmann Award for "courage and achievement in defense of scientific truth and freedom." 2014 - Frederick Seitz Memorial Award (presented by Heartland Institute) Selected publications References External links CO2 Science , Doctors for Disaster Preparedness Meeting, July 12, 2003 1942 births Living people University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni American climatologists People from Thief River Falls, Minnesota