FACTSHEET: Willie Soon
DETAILS
Research Physicist, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
between Dec 1998 and September 2001 he was a "Scientific Advisor" to Greening Earth Society
appropriately 2002: Professor of the Faculty of Science and Environmental Studies of the University of Putra, Malaysia
senior scientist at the George C. Marshall Institute between approximately November 1997 and May 2003 s
science director, Tech Central Station (TCS)
Dr. Soon is a leading climate change skeptic and has published multiple climate-related studies with fellow George Marshall and Harvard-Smithsonian scientist Sallie Baliunas.
Senior Scientist, George Marshall Institute.
Science Director, Tech Central Station.
Chief scientific researcher at the frontiers of Freedom's Center for Science and Public Policy which was set up after $100,000 ExxonMobil grant in 2002.
Willie Soon is a physicist at the Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and an astronomer at the Mount Wilson Observatory.
KEY QUOTES
the last thing we should be doing is limiting carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere, just in case they may have a positive effect in sustaining present temperatures.
Source: "Global Warming:A Chilling Perspective" by Willie Soon
QUOTES
5 October, 2007
Unfortunately, a lot of disinformation about where Earth's climate is heading is being propagated by "scientists" who use improper statistical methods
Source: "Global Warming:A Chilling Perspective" by Willie Soon
The case for a "greenhouse problem" is made by environmentalists, news anchormen , and special interests who make inaccurate and misleading statements about global warming and climate change. Even though people may be skeptical of such rhetoric initially, after awhile people start believing it must be true because we hear it so often.
Source: "Global Warming:A Chilling Perspective" by Willie Soon
5 August, 2009
The business of trying to control carbon dioxide and putting a monetary value on carbon emissions is extremely deadly and serious. This is the ultimate government tax.
Source: 2009 Tea Party Milwaukee
5 August, 2009
CO2 is not an air pollutant, regardless of what the EPA is saying or even what our Supreme Court is saying. It does not change the weather and climate as best as we can measure them; science is, after all, the business of measurement.
Source: 2009 Tea Party Milwaukee
KEY DEEDS
16 May, 2003
Published, with fellow sceptic Sallie Baliunas, an article in the Climate Research journal which reviewed the work of a number of climate scientists who concluded that the last century is the hottest in the last 1000 years. The article, partly funded by the American Petroleum Institute, caused the resignation of three of the journal's editors, in protest at the peer review process. The peer review process was conducted by New Zealand sceptic scientist Chris de Freitas. The Soon/Baliunas article was widely picked up by Exxon-funded groups and led to a Senate hearing chaired by James Inhofe (R-OK)
Source: Jeff Nesmith, Cox News
DEEDS
Wrote a paper titled “Polar bears of western Hudson Bay and climate change: Are warming spring air temperatures the "ultimate" survival control factor?”, concluding that polar bears are not being threatened by anthropogenic global warming. Dr. Soon disclosed in the acknowledgments section that he had received direct corporate funding for the work, stating “W. Soon’s effort for the completion of this paper was partially supported by grants from the Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation, American Petroleum Institute, and Exxon-Mobil Corporation.”
Source: "Case Study: Polar Bear Junk Science and Koch Industries"
ORGANIZATIONS
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Source:
George C. Marshall Institute
Source: George Marshall Institute website 5/06
American Petroleum Institute
Source: "Earth Last," The American Prospect, 5/7/04
Fraser Institute
Source: Fraser Institute website 4/04
Tech Central Science Foundation or Tech Central Station
Source: Tech Central Station Bio - Soon
World Climate Report
Source: World Climate Report website
United for Jobs
Source: United for Jobs "Mercury Matters" May 8, 2004
Heartland Institute
Source: Heartland Institute Website (2006)
Cooler Heads Coalition
Source: CEI Advertisement
Climate Research Journal
Source: Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years
Frontiers of Freedom Institute and Foundation
Source: Article in Wall St Journal
SOURCES
"Earth Last," The American Prospect, 5/7/04
article by Chris Mooney
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=7603
"Earth Last," The American Prospect, 5/7/04
article by Chris Mooney
http://www.prospect.org/web/page.ww?section=root&name=ViewPrint&articleId=7603
Fraser Institute website 4/04
http://www.fraserinstitute.ca
Fraser Institute website 4/04
http://www.fraserinstitute.ca
World Climate Report website
http://www.co2andclimate.org/climate/editors/editors.htm
World Climate Report website
http://www.co2andclimate.org/climate/editors/editors.htm
Jeff Nesmith, Cox News
Investigative journalist
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/124642_warming02.html
Jeff Nesmith, Cox News
Investigative journalist
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/124642_warming02.html
United for Jobs "Mercury Matters" May 8, 2004
http://www.unitedforjobs2004.org/ufj/wrapper.jsp?PID=8040-35&CID=8040-042904D
United for Jobs "Mercury Matters" May 8, 2004
http://www.unitedforjobs2004.org/ufj/wrapper.jsp?PID=8040-35&CID=8040-042904D
Tech Central Station Bio - Soon
http://www.techcentralstation.com/biosoonwillie.html
Tech Central Station Bio - Soon
http://www.techcentralstation.com/biosoonwillie.html
George Marshall Institute website 5/06
http://www.marshall.org
George Marshall Institute website 5/06
http://www.marshall.org
Heartland Institute Website (2006)
http://www.heartland.org/article.cfm?artId=16208
Heartland Institute Website (2006)
http://www.heartland.org/article.cfm?artId=16208
CEI Advertisement
http://www.cei.org/gencon/028,03472.cfm
CEI Advertisement
http://www.cei.org/gencon/028,03472.cfm
Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years
http://w3g.gkss.de/G/Mitarbeiter/storch/pdf/soon+baliunas.cr.2003.pdf
Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years
http://w3g.gkss.de/G/Mitarbeiter/storch/pdf/soon+baliunas.cr.2003.pdf
Article in Wall St Journal
Article by Soon and Robert Ferguson on how Mercury is good for you
http://downloads.heartland.org/17743.pdf
"Global Warming:A Chilling Perspective" by Willie Soon
non peer reviewed article
http://www.geocraft.com/WVFossils/ice_ages.html
"Case Study: Polar Bear Junk Science and Koch Industries"
Greenpeace article
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/case-study-polar-bear-junk-sc
2009 Tea Party Milwaukee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuzbmgRVIIY&feature=related