Climate sceptic Willie Soon received $1m from oil companies, papers show

[Autumnlicious]

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.

REF: http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/20...illie-soon

Doesn't anyone know what conflict of interest is anymore? Sheesh.

And since when did an astrophysicist become an expert on Polar bears?

[popeyespappy]

Willie has been a prominent feature of the exxonsecrets.org website for a while now.

[Cinjin]

Bank account ledger prior to meeting with EXXON:
$624.31
$848.26
$322.50
$419.82

Bank account ledger after meeting with EXXON:
$42,866.50
$91,525.37
$86,851.25
$138,128.92
$175,300.44


Willie: "Umm ..... WHAT GLOBAL WARMING?!?"

[The Magic Pudding]

We've got this Lord Bug Eyed Stupidity guy visiting at the moment.
He's identified the professor conducting the government climate change review as a Nazi.
I wonder if being the only one who can see the truth has made his eyes pop out.
Maybe his eyes are trying to separate themselves from the idiocy going on back there.

[Faith No More]

Whenever a prominent scientist comes out with something stupid like being a climate change skeptic, you can be sure they are on the take. Like the guy who claimed to have linked autism with vaccines, but it turned out he received around $500,000 to come to that conclusion.

[martin02]

If I were to add in this thread that sceptic and Climate Sceptic were not interchangeable terms, would someone try to refute me by citing an example of a Climate Sceptic generally also regarded as a sceptic? Again?

Yeah, thought so. So I won't.