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<blockquote data-quote="cyptomcat" data-source="post: 137778" data-attributes="member: 323"><p>I remember reading couple of papers from Soon a few years ago. I also remember that he clearly indicated that he received funding from Koch brothers, oil companies and other similar organizations in those papers, so I am not sure how the Soon thing is a big revelation. I actually enjoyed reading his work. I also enjoyed reading Pielke's work, and it's very sad to hear that he faced attacks forcing him to move away from the field. I thought his work was valuable. </p><p></p><p>Whatever slight omissions Soon had would be minor (because reviewers had to be familiar with Soon), and I think this issue should be between him and his employer in addition to the magazines. I don't think the house investigation is justified. Unfortunately, it's not the first time someone came after a climate scientist. Some Republicans came after UVA climate scientists a while back, but the judge found no justification for their investigation request. There is no justification for these new investigation requests as well.</p><p></p><p>It's good that Soon makes these contributions to climate science especially through peer reviewed research. Even if his contribution is through sligtly un-orthodox correlation studies. I think there is value in them.</p><p></p><p>FWIW, the Soon global analysis I read (link below) found significant contribution from greenhouse gases to global warming, but he also argued that solar irradiance was a significant factor in addition to the greenhouse gasses. One of the co-authors was Baliunas, who got famous in 90s for rejecting that CFCs caused Ozone depletion. I am not sure if she got industry money for that specifically.</p><p></p><p>Link to the paper: <a href="http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/472/2/891/pdf/34083.web.pdf" target="_blank">http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/472/2/891/pdf/34083.web.pdf</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cyptomcat, post: 137778, member: 323"] I remember reading couple of papers from Soon a few years ago. I also remember that he clearly indicated that he received funding from Koch brothers, oil companies and other similar organizations in those papers, so I am not sure how the Soon thing is a big revelation. I actually enjoyed reading his work. I also enjoyed reading Pielke's work, and it's very sad to hear that he faced attacks forcing him to move away from the field. I thought his work was valuable. Whatever slight omissions Soon had would be minor (because reviewers had to be familiar with Soon), and I think this issue should be between him and his employer in addition to the magazines. I don't think the house investigation is justified. Unfortunately, it's not the first time someone came after a climate scientist. Some Republicans came after UVA climate scientists a while back, but the judge found no justification for their investigation request. There is no justification for these new investigation requests as well. It's good that Soon makes these contributions to climate science especially through peer reviewed research. Even if his contribution is through sligtly un-orthodox correlation studies. I think there is value in them. FWIW, the Soon global analysis I read (link below) found significant contribution from greenhouse gases to global warming, but he also argued that solar irradiance was a significant factor in addition to the greenhouse gasses. One of the co-authors was Baliunas, who got famous in 90s for rejecting that CFCs caused Ozone depletion. I am not sure if she got industry money for that specifically. Link to the paper: [URL]http://iopscience.iop.org/0004-637X/472/2/891/pdf/34083.web.pdf[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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