FACTSHEET: Willie Soon
DETAILS
Research Physicist, Harvard Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
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.
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.
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 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
ORGANIZATIONS
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