Major Climate Change skeptic admits to being paid by Oil companies

[CptStern]

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.

pretty obvious there had to be payola involved but it's good to hear someone's reputation ruined because of it

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jun/28/climate-change-sceptic-willie-soon

 

[Acepilotf14]

Only one million? He's bad at being payed off by people.

 

[No Limit]

Remember how that one memo came out about how a couple scientists hyped up their findings on global warming? You know the memo, the one where the media and especially the right wing used it to say global warming was discredited?

Well, I'm sure this will get the same kind of coverage. :upstare: