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German Researcher Receives Catalysis Award

2015-03-13 16:04:00| Chemical Processing

Honor recognizes work on bridging the gap between modeling and application

Climate Change Researcher Offers a Defense of His Practices

2015-03-03 10:05:40| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: The scientist at the center of a controversy over fossil-fuel funding for climate research denounced his critics on Monday and said that he would be happy to comply with possible additional disclosure requirements from scientific journals publishing his papers. In his first detailed public statement since the controversy erupted more than a week ago, the scientist, Wei-Hock Soon, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, complained that he had been the subject of unfair...

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European grain yield stagnation related to climate change, says researcher

2015-02-23 12:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

PhysOrg: The European Union led the world in wheat production and exports in 2014-15. Yet Europe is also the region where productivity has slowed the most. Yields of major crops have not increased as much as would be expected over the past 20 years, based on past productivity increases and innovations in agriculture. Finding the causes of that stagnation is key to understanding the trajectory of the global food supply. Logically, it would seem that climate change would affect crops. But in the overall...

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Ties to Corporate Cash for Climate-Change Researcher

2015-02-21 20:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New York Times: For years, politicians wanting to block legislation on climate change have bolstered their arguments by pointing to the work of a handful of scientists who claim that greenhouse gases pose little risk to humanity. One of the names they invoke most often is Wei-Hock Soon, known as Willie, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who claims that variations in the sun's energy can largely explain recent global warming. He has often appeared on conservative news programs, testified...

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