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While everyone is loligagging around with Email scandals, one of the most prominent Climate Change Deniers who has published at least 11 papers, Wei-Hock Soon, received $1.2 million dollars from fossil fuel industry magnates such as Southern Company, Exxon, the American Petroleum Institute and Charles Koch Charitable Foundation. New evidence shows that the reports were "paid for" and the outcomes of Soon's research had already been determined by the industry. Very damning evidence.
This is the guy on which many of these talking heads base their arguments on including the Technibble favorite "Lord Monckton" who published a questionable paper with Soon. Heck, one of Senator James Inhofe's favorite guys to quote on the Senate floor is Dr. Soon.
This is Fox News' expert "Foxpert" that they have had on for years expelling his "new findings"... what does Fox News report about this now? Crickets. Not a word.
To put this in perspective, from 1991 to 2013 there have been 25 dissenting papers out of 16,208 papers. Dismissing Soons papers only leaves 14 dissenting papers.
NYTimes: Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher
(Includes link to Documents included in the FOIA discovery)
TheGuardian: Work of prominent climate change denier was funded by energy industry
DemocracyNow: Top Scientist Got Funding from ExxonMobil, Koch Brothers, Big Coal
DailyKos: Super-Duper Big: Harvard-Smithsonian Harboring Koch-Funded Climate Denier Wei-Hock Soon
And this isn't his first time:
2003: Climate Research controversy
2011: Funding controversy
This is the guy on which many of these talking heads base their arguments on including the Technibble favorite "Lord Monckton" who published a questionable paper with Soon. Heck, one of Senator James Inhofe's favorite guys to quote on the Senate floor is Dr. Soon.
This is Fox News' expert "Foxpert" that they have had on for years expelling his "new findings"... what does Fox News report about this now? Crickets. Not a word.
To put this in perspective, from 1991 to 2013 there have been 25 dissenting papers out of 16,208 papers. Dismissing Soons papers only leaves 14 dissenting papers.
NYTimes: Deeper Ties to Corporate Cash for Doubtful Climate Researcher
(Includes link to Documents included in the FOIA discovery)
TheGuardian: Work of prominent climate change denier was funded by energy industry
DemocracyNow: Top Scientist Got Funding from ExxonMobil, Koch Brothers, Big Coal
DailyKos: Super-Duper Big: Harvard-Smithsonian Harboring Koch-Funded Climate Denier Wei-Hock Soon
And this isn't his first time:
2003: Climate Research controversy
In 2003, Willie Soon was first author on a review paper in the journal Climate Research, with Sallie Baliunas as co-author. This paper concluded that "the 20th century is probably not the warmest nor a uniquely extreme climatic period of the last millennium."[23][24]
Shortly thereafter, 13 scientists published a rebuttal to the paper.[25][26] There were three main objections: (1) Soon and Baliunas used data reflective of changes in moisture, rather than temperature; (2) they failed to distinguish between regional and hemispheric mean temperature anomalies; and (3) they reconstructed past temperatures from proxy evidence not capable of resolving decadal trends.[25][26] Soon, Baliunas and David Legates published a response to these objections.[27].....
.....Soon and Baliunas have also been criticised because their research budget was funded in part by the American Petroleum Institute.[30][31][32]
2011: Funding controversy
In 2011, it was revealed that Soon received over $1,000,000 from petroleum and coal interests since 2001.[33] Documents obtained by Greenpeace under the US Freedom of Information Act show that the Charles G. Koch Foundation gave Soon two grants totaling $175,000 in 2005–06 and again in 2010. Multiple grants from the American Petroleum Institute between 2001 and 2007 totalled $274,000, and grants from Exxon Mobil totalled $335,000 between 2005 and 2010. Other coal and oil industry sources which funded him include the Mobil Foundation, the Texaco Foundation and the Electric Power Research Institute. Soon has stated unequivocally that he has "never been motivated by financial reward in any of my scientific research" and "would have accepted money from Greenpeace if they had offered it to do my research."[34]
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