How One Climate-Change Skeptic Has Profited From Corporate Interests

Lasrick writes Elected officials who want to block the EPA and legislation on climate change frequently refer to a handful of scientists who dispute anthropogenic climate change. One of scientists they quote most often is Wei-Hock Soon, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who claims that variations in the sun's energy can largely explain recent global warming. Newly released documents show the extent to which Dr. Soon has made a fortune from corporate interests. 'He has accepted more than $1.2 million in money from the fossil-fuel industry over the last decade while failing to disclose that conflict of interest in most of his scientific papers. At least 11 papers he has published since 2008 omitted such a disclosure, and in at least eight of those cases, he appears to have violated ethical guidelines of the journals that published his work.' The Koch Brothers are cited as a source of Dr. Soon's funding.

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Re:disclosure

[Anonymous Coward]

NASA did adjust the satellite data of temperaturs AFTER global warming hype started so they could show data that it was indeed warming(prior they showed no warming) and im not so sure it was justified as theres STILL freaking weather balloon measurements that show cooling, but if its up to climate guys, they just throw in there corrective math....

Also climategate showed us that theres really no reliable data sources for temperature data since all handily available data is already "filtered" and design of that filter can have huge effect on entire dataset...

For example lot of models include siberia during 1990-2000 with measurements when its KNOWN fact that siberian measurement statios were abandoned due lack of funding after soviet union collapsed and theres no data available at all....