Work of prominent climate change denier was funded by energy industry
Source: The Guardian
A prominent academic and climate change deniers work was funded almost entirely by the energy industry, receiving more than $1.2m from companies, lobby groups and oil billionaires over more than a decade, newly released documents show.
Over the last 14 years Willie Soon, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, received a total of $1.25m from Exxon Mobil, Southern Company, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and a foundation run by the ultra-conservative Koch brothers, the documents obtained by Greenpeace through freedom of information filings show.
According to the documents, the biggest single funder was Southern Company, one of the countrys biggest electricity providers that relies heavily on coal.
The documents draw new attention to the industrys efforts to block action against climate change including President Barack Obamas power-plant rules.
Read more: http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2015/feb/21/climate-change-denier-willie-soon-funded-energy-industry
hobbit709
(41,694 posts)marym625
(17,997 posts)Hee hee
billhicks76
(5,082 posts)Elmer S. E. Dump
(5,751 posts)JohnnyRingo
(18,636 posts)Something we always knew, but had to look under a rock for proof.
on point
(2,506 posts)Yeah researchers worldwide are in it as part of some self serving research conspiracy just to keep themselves employed, but the oil funded ones are sooo independent and just in it to the tell the truth....
Or so we keep hearing from the deniers. One of my favorites.
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)Guess who wrote that, just two hours ago?
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calimary
(81,304 posts)blogslut
(38,001 posts)calimary
(81,304 posts)As if anybody had any doubts...
NYC_SKP
(68,644 posts)It's an old list, this isn't a new revelation exactly but K/R fersure!
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/en/campaigns/global-warming-and-energy/polluterwatch/koch-industries/CASE-STUDY-Dr-Willie-Soon-a-Career-Fueled-by-Big-Oil-and-Coal/
mountain grammy
(26,623 posts)Greed pure and simple.
RoccoR5955
(12,471 posts)Didn't we know this all along?
blkmusclmachine
(16,149 posts)Overseas
(12,121 posts)I just wish it would get more mainstream network news coverage.
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)RufusTFirefly
(8,812 posts)The following is from the Mother Jones article, "Put a Tiger in Your Think Tank" from the May/June 2005 issue
The article is old but still well worth checking out, especially for the charts.
Ruby the Liberal
(26,219 posts)paleotn
(17,930 posts).....whoda thunk it?!
progree
(10,908 posts)compensation
SoapBox
(18,791 posts)not.
Crooks and liars.