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Climate Change Denier Wei-Hock Soon Took Over $1 Million Oil Industry
2015-02-22 21:08:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Saving Advice: There is an ongoing debate about how humans are affecting the global climate and subsequently, what governments and policy makers should do to stem the effects of climate change. According to Wikipedia, no scientific body disagrees with the view that global surface temperatures have increased primarily due to human-induced emissions of greenhouse gases and as such, there should be political pressure to prevent continued changes. However, there is a small group of scientists who disagree with this...
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Leading climate change denier was paid by energy companies
2015-02-22 17:44:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Verge: Wei-Hock Soon, a leading climate change denier whose work has fortified right-wing political arguments for years, was paid more than $1.2 million by energy companies, The New York Times reports. New documents uncovered by Greenpeace via the Freedom of Information Act show that over the last decade, Soon received sizable funding from oil and gas corporations, which he failed to disclose in scientific papers he published. This is not the first time Soon has been found receiving compensation for...
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Climate Change Deniers Take Yet Another Hit
2015-02-22 17:43:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Mother Jones: Climate change deniers don't have a lot of credible scientists who support their view. But they have a few, and one of the busiest and most prolific is Wei-Hock Soon, who insists that global warming is caused by variations in the sun's output, not by anything humans are doing. Soon's doctorate is in aerospace engineering, not atmospheric science or geophysics or some more relevant discipline, but he's nonetheless an actual scientist and a reliable ally for the climate deniers. Unfortunately, the...
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Climate change panel warns New York seas and temperatures will rise destructive level
2015-02-22 05:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Monitor: The end of the century could see a six-foot rise in water level and cause the number of heat waves to triple Although it may seem ludicrous to think about heat waves while the northeast continues to get battered by snowstorms, scientists have revealed new predictions that indicate that the drastic weather across the country will only get worse as climate change gathers steam in the years to come. According to the New York City Panel on Climate Change, an independent organization of climate...
Head of UN climate change panel skips Nairobi meet amid sexual harassment allegations in India
2015-02-21 23:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Indian leader of the U.N.'s expert panel on climate change has pulled out of a key meeting in Nairobi while pledging to cooperate with New Delhi police investigating allegations of sexual harassment. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said its chairman, R.K. Pachauri, would skip next week's plenary session in the Kenyan capital "because of issues demanding his attention in India." While the organization refused to elaborate, Pachauri is being investigated after a 29-year-old...
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