Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Leading Climate Denier and Harvard Scientist Took $1.2 Million Bribe From Oil Companies

Click here to access article by Mihai Andrei from ZME Science
Wei-Hock Soon, an aerospace engineer and a part-time employee at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is one of the few respected scientists who spoke against the general consensus that human activity is a significant contributor to climate change. He has published 11 papers on climate change since 2008. However, it was recently shown that he received $1.2 million from oil companies in exchange for his “science”. According to leaked documents, the  papers were simply “deliverables” that he completed in exchange for their money.
Funny how I haven't noticed this bit of news in my local corporate media, but it is covered in the Science section of the NY Times . We certainly heard about hacked emails among some British climate scientists back in 2009 which supposedly revealed that climate change data was manipulated. That was on mainstream media for weeks.