2 days ago it snowed here in Richmond and today its 80 degress. Climate change is obviously a lie made up by the lame stream media and liberal socialist Obama supporters….[facepalm]
Climate sceptic Willie Soon received $1m from oil companies
One of the world’s most prominent scientific figures to be sceptical about climate change has admitted to being paid more than $1m in the past decade by major US oil and coal companies.
Dr Willie Soon, an astrophysicist at the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics, is known for his view that global warming and the melting of the arctic sea ice is caused by solar variation rather than human-caused CO2 emissions, and that polar bears are not primarily threatened by climate change.
But according to a Greenpeace US investigation, he has been heavily funded by coal and oil industry interests since 2001, receiving money from ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Insitute and Koch Industriesalong with Southern, one of the world’s largest coal-burning utility companies. Since 2002, it is alleged, every new grant he has received has been from either oil or coal interests.
In addition, freedom of information documents suggest that Soon corresponded in 2003 with other prominent climate sceptics to try to weaken a major assessment of global warming being conducted by the UN’s leading climate science body, the Nobel prize-winningIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Is anyone else reminded of the scientists being paid by tobacco companies to dispute findings about smoking’s harmful effect on humans? The amount of people who will skim a paper written by a shill like this and use it as an excuse to ignore the mountains of scientific evidence proving that climate change is anthropogenic just blows my mind. The science is clear, but the “other side” of the issue continues to plug it’s ears and ignore factual evidence.
Was thinking the exact same thing. They work the spin machine to put off the inevitable for as long as possible til they have to do something about cause people finally wake up to whats really happening. Its the American way, ignore it til they can prove it in a court of law and by that time you will have made so much money off the suffering of billions they wont be able to touch you even if they get a court settlement cause at that point the money will be stacked so high the court settlement will be nothing more than pocket change.
Source: jonathan-cunningham
