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.
[6] In 1972, Idso published an article called "An American Haboob", in which he documented a large dust storm in Arizona which occurred on July 16, 1971, and which stretched from Tucson to Phoenix.
Brazel, published 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.
"[13] In the 1998 paper, CO2-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 CO2 content, which suggests to me that little net temperature change will ultimately result from the ongoing buildup of CO2 in Earth's atmosphere.
He was married and sealed to Carolyn Marie Wakefield in the Logan, Utah temple on August 23, 1963, whom he referred to as "the most beautiful woman in the world" in his diary.
Idso held a lifelong fascination with nature as well as an enjoyment of photography, of which produced a variety of hobbies, such as capturing pictures of small creatures or assisting in the creation of a saltwater pond in the family home backyard.