Who is Willie Soon, who wrote a Washington Times OPED in June, "Bad science behind Florida mercury phobia"?
In 2003, Soon was in the middle of a dispute within the science publishing community over a paper related to global warming. In 2011, it was revealed that Soon received over $1,000,000 from petroleum and coal interests since 2001.[27] Documents obtained by Greenpeace under the US Freedom of Information Act show that the Charles G. Koch Foundation gave Soon two grants totaling $175,000 in 2005/6 and again in 2010. Multiple grants from the American Petroleum Institute between 2001 and 2007 totalled $274,000, and grants from Exxon Mobil totalled $335,000 between 2005 and 2010. Other coal and oil industry sources which funded him include the Mobil Foundation, the Texaco Foundation and the Electric Power Research Institute. Soon has stated unequivocally that he has "never been motivated by financial reward in any of my scientific research."
It would be interesting to know how Soon, an "astrophysicist", became an authority on threat of mercury to Florida but we can guess because the scent of money from sugar billionaires who interests ally with the Koch brothers is never far away from the mercury issue.
In 2003, Soon was in the middle of a dispute within the science publishing community over a paper related to global warming. In 2011, it was revealed that Soon received over $1,000,000 from petroleum and coal interests since 2001.[27] Documents obtained by Greenpeace under the US Freedom of Information Act show that the Charles G. Koch Foundation gave Soon two grants totaling $175,000 in 2005/6 and again in 2010. Multiple grants from the American Petroleum Institute between 2001 and 2007 totalled $274,000, and grants from Exxon Mobil totalled $335,000 between 2005 and 2010. Other coal and oil industry sources which funded him include the Mobil Foundation, the Texaco Foundation and the Electric Power Research Institute. Soon has stated unequivocally that he has "never been motivated by financial reward in any of my scientific research."
It would be interesting to know how Soon, an "astrophysicist", became an authority on threat of mercury to Florida but we can guess because the scent of money from sugar billionaires who interests ally with the Koch brothers is never far away from the mercury issue.
9 comments:
Wow. The only thing more ridiculous would have been if Tom MacVicar wrote the piece.
So you are following the money trail. Let's see the evidence for these big grants. Or are you making them up?
Willie Soon is underpaid!
A report in the Washington Examiner, entitled “Working for Big Green can be a very enriching experience” by Mark Tapscott, showed that the leaders of 15 top Big Green environmental groups are paid more than $300,000 in annual compensation, with a half million dollar plus figure for the top “earner”.
He mentions that Environmental Defense Fund President Frederic Krupp, receives total compensation of $496,174, including $446,072 in salary and $50,102 in other compensation.
Close behind Krupp among Big Green environmental movement executives is World Wildlife Fund- US President Carter Roberts, who was paid $486,394, including a salary of $439,327 and other compensation of $47,067.
And of course compared to NASA's James Hanson who makes seven figures a year, Soon is a lightweight. If he were on the greenie side he'd make alot more!
Poor Willie Soon.
Losers.
That's all you got? Why dont you ask Dr. Soon? That's weak. Why don't you answer his criticisms. Oh that's right...you don't read do you?
you can see all the info and links to Willi Soon here:http://www.exxonsecrets.org/html/personfactsheet.php?id=860
Typical.
When your position is indefensible, attack the person.
Respond to his science or shutup.
Scientists have to get grants to do their work; the institution takes a big chunk of it for overhead. Somehow those who get grants from government may be immune from scrutiny, but the fact is that billions in funding go to those who "find" anthropogenic climate change, while those who dare to criticize can have all their funding chopped off, even on unrelated subjects. They can even be summarily fired, and can forget about getting tenure. Soon is a man of great integrity and highly accomplished. And extraordinarily courageous. Obviously, you can't find a flaw in his actual arguments so you go with your only tool, the ad hominem, in a vicious round of attack dogs citing each other.
And this makes global warming real?
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