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Tony Abbott out of a job, and another leading climate-change skeptic may soon follow
2015-09-14 22:57:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott was dramatically booted from office on Monday after a putsch within his ruling Liberal Party. A leadership vote led to the controversial Abbott being replaced by rival Malcolm Turnbull. The new premier will serve out the coalition government's remaining term before parliamentary elections are held next year. Turnbull and Abbott have clashed in the past, most conspicuously on the subject of climate change. Abbott is one of the Western world's leading climate-change...
Journals investigate climate skeptic authors ties fossil fuel firm as new allegations arise
2015-06-11 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Science: A half-dozen academic journals are investigating allegations that aerospace engineer Willie Wei-Hock Soon, a prominent skeptic of the idea that humans are contributing to global warming, failed to disclose financial ties to a fossil fuel company in papers they published. And the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) is examining fresh allegationsmade in a report released today by the advocacy group Climate Investigations Center (CIC)that Soon failed to follow disclosure rules in...
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NPR attacks alleged 'attacks' on climate-change skeptic
2015-03-12 22:56:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Washington Post: On the front page of its Sunday edition of Feb. 22, the New York Times pretty much blasted a hole in the climate-change denial movement. The story addressed funding sources for Willie Soon, a scientist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. For anyone following climate change, Soon is a fascinating figure. He posits that global warming is explainable through variations in the suns energy, as the Times puts it -- and not so much through human activity. Such analysis has made Soon...
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Noted climate-change skeptic linked to corporate money
2015-02-22 21:12:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Seattle 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 suns energy can largely explain recent global warming. He has often appeared on conservative news programs, testified...
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Climate change skeptic accused violating disclosure agreement
2015-01-26 17:34:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Boston Globe: A climate-change skeptic at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics who has relied on grants from fossil-fuel energy interests apparently failed to disclose financial conflicts of interest in a newly released paper, according to a complaint by a climate watchdog group. The paper by Harvard-Smithsonian scientist Willie Soon and three other climate-change skeptics contends that the UN panel that tracks global warming uses a flawed methodology to estimate global temperature change. Soon and...
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