In what could turn out to be helpful news for the reality-based community, a new trove of documents show that one of the leading "scientific critics" of global warming has been funded directly by the fossil fuel industries. Wei-Hock Soon, who goes by "Willie," has traded on his position as a part-time employee of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics to present himself as a legitimate scientist who's simply not convinced that human activity is responsible for climate change, which has made him very popular with conservative groups and politicians.
This goes beyond just the Leftist political agenda of Big Climate... This is the work of Big Ethics. What a bunch of freakin commies, insisting on disclosing conflicts of interest and legitimate conclusions based on evidence and not who's paying you that day... It's un-American.
You've been hacking into my nanny-cam again!
Inhofe is just a meat puppet with Exxon's hand up his ass.~
Was Dr. Soon the one bush43 used to say Saddam had 'yellowcake' to make WMD with? I suspect that would have been a 'deliverable'.
Every good engineer is a little bit of a scientist, and every good scientist is a little bit of an engineer. It's clear this guy is neither.
I see what you did there.
This goes beyond just the Leftist political agenda of Big Climate... This is the work of Big Ethics. What a bunch of freakin commies, insisting on disclosing conflicts of interest and legitimate conclusions based on evidence and not who's paying you that day... It's un-American.
he's got it down to a science!
This is going out to all my EE friends and family. You can't spell GEEK without EE!
Capitalism at work. What's the big deal?
awesome
I will FLIP BURGERS before I help folks pull stuff out of the ground and burn it! Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get back to my scrabble game.
Oh, also, Asian-American.
Sooner Senator, Southern, Soon? Coming soon to a lawsuit near you.
Say what you will, but the GOP is not in bed with Big Ethics.
Oh ew. Now I need to bleach my brain. Thanks for that.
Suddenly I'm hungry for a big dish of beef chow mein. Wha, who?