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Climate sceptic Willie Soon received $1m from oil companies, papers show
Documents obtained by Greenpeace show prominent opponent of climate change was funded by ExxonMobil, among others
One of the world's most prominent scientific figures to be sceptical about climate change has admitted to being paid more than $1m in the past decade by major US oil and coal companies.
Dr Willie Soon, an astrophysicist at the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, is known for his view that global warming and the melting of the arctic sea ice is caused by solar variation rather than human-caused CO2 emissions, and that polar bears are not primarily threatened by climate change.
But according to a Greenpeace US investigation, he has been heavily funded by coal and oil industry interests since 2001, receiving money from ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Insitute and Koch Industries along with Southern, one of the world's largest coal-burning utility companies. Since 2002, it is alleged, every new grant he has received has been from either oil or coal interests.
In addition, freedom of information documents suggest that Soon corresponded in 2003 with other prominent climate sceptics to try to weaken a major assessment of global warming being conducted by the UN's leading climate science body, the Nobel prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
I'll see your corporate shill and raise you an academic shunned by his peers and government grants cut off for daring to question the Goreacle, now having to use $100,000 of his own personal funds to fund his research.
But but but, what about all those cute little commercials about the Human Element by Exxon and other oil companies to fund green energy research?? I'm so confused!
But but but, what about all those cute little commercials about the Human Element by Exxon and other oil companies to fund green energy research?? I'm so confused!
I'll end the confusion. ExxonMobil LOVES the EPA. The EPA works with ExxonMobil to keep new players from entering the market and EM considers the regulations a small price to pay to maintain an oligopoly. Meanwhile, they can pretend to be mortal enemies in front of the public so the EPA can look like the good guys, get more government money, and keep that perpetual "carrot on a stick" for neo-progressives and crunchy granola hippies alike.
ExxonMobil grows. The EPA grows. Win-win for everyone but the American people.
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I'll see your corporate shill and raise you an academic shunned by his peers and government grants cut off for daring to question the Goreacle, now having to use $100,000 of his own personal funds to fund his research.
I know Dr. Gray personally and have seen his work up close. The quality of his work has so diminished in the last decade and his personal attacks on scientists has become so vehemently strong that I am really saddened by it. It's one thing to be a "skeptic" of climate change but quite the other to go to professional conferences and outwardly charge anyone who gets up to give a talk as having purposely manipulated their data. Very sad.
I know Dr. Gray personally and have seen his work up close. The quality of his work has so diminished in the last decade and his personal attacks on scientists has become so vehemently strong that I am really saddened by it. It's one thing to be a "skeptic" of climate change but quite the other to go to professional conferences and outwardly charge anyone who gets up to give a talk as having purposely manipulated their data. Very sad.
You can claim to know him all you want on an anonymous internet board, don't expect people to believe you. It's logical to conclude you said you know him to make your very serious accusation of his work "diminishing" sound more credible.
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