The Willie Soon Controversy
There’s been a lot of talk about the Willie Soon Controversy. Bottom line: Soon was an author on a paper that failed to disclose his extensive funding by the petroleum industry and its friends (over a million dollars to date, I believe) as required. I don’t have time to craft a detailed expose or commentary, but I wanted to get a bunch of resources in one place. I should mention that this is not all about Willie Soon, but rather, about climate science denialists more generally, a few specific others besides Soon, about how crap gets published now and then much to the giddiness of the denialist community, and about the ethical issues plaguing Soon, which have led to, among other things, tens of thousands of people signing a petition to get him sacked from his position at Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysics lab.
The Monckton-Soon-Legates-Briggs paper
It all starts with this paper:
Why models run hot: results from an irreducibly simple climate model, published in the Science Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
The paper is by Christopher Monckton, Willie Soon, David Legates and William Briggs.
The paper has been examined by a number of scientists and others, and found wanting. Here is a selection of the critiques:
Roz Pidcock at The Carbon Brief: check: Scientists hit back at claims global warming projections are “greatly exaggerated”
William Connolley at Stoat: “the Monckton et. al [sic] paper is complete trash”
Thought Fragments: Monckton, Soon, Legates, and Briggs falsely claim to have presented a new climate model (see also this comment on that post.)
And Then There’s Physics: The designers of our climate
Not Spaghetti: The Monckton equation
Alexandray Cheung at Climate at Imperial College London: http://ift.tt/1wPbbbT
From the Daily Kos: Mocking Monckton’s Climate Model
On getting bad climate science published in peer reviewed journals
Brian Merchant at Motherboard: How Climate Change Denial Still Gets Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals
From E&E Publishing, Gayathri Vaidyanathan: Heartland Institute finds route into U.S. science news conduit through China
About Soon’s apparent failure to follow disclose, and his funding sources:
The Boston Globe: Climate change skeptic accused of violating disclosure rules
Climate Investigations Center: Willie Soon Fails Conflict of Interest Test in Science Bulletin Article
About that petition to get him fired: Willie Soon, will he soon be fired?
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The Willie Soon Controversy
There’s been a lot of talk about the Willie Soon Controversy. Bottom line: Soon was an author on a paper that failed to disclose his extensive funding by the petroleum industry and its friends (over a million dollars to date, I believe) as required. I don’t have time to craft a detailed expose or commentary, but I wanted to get a bunch of resources in one place. I should mention that this is not all about Willie Soon, but rather, about climate science denialists more generally, a few specific others besides Soon, about how crap gets published now and then much to the giddiness of the denialist community, and about the ethical issues plaguing Soon, which have led to, among other things, tens of thousands of people signing a petition to get him sacked from his position at Harvard-Smithsonian Astrophysics lab.
The Monckton-Soon-Legates-Briggs paper
It all starts with this paper:
Why models run hot: results from an irreducibly simple climate model, published in the Science Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
The paper is by Christopher Monckton, Willie Soon, David Legates and William Briggs.
The paper has been examined by a number of scientists and others, and found wanting. Here is a selection of the critiques:
Roz Pidcock at The Carbon Brief: check: Scientists hit back at claims global warming projections are “greatly exaggerated”
William Connolley at Stoat: “the Monckton et. al [sic] paper is complete trash”
Thought Fragments: Monckton, Soon, Legates, and Briggs falsely claim to have presented a new climate model (see also this comment on that post.)
And Then There’s Physics: The designers of our climate
Not Spaghetti: The Monckton equation
Alexandray Cheung at Climate at Imperial College London: http://ift.tt/1wPbbbT
From the Daily Kos: Mocking Monckton’s Climate Model
On getting bad climate science published in peer reviewed journals
Brian Merchant at Motherboard: How Climate Change Denial Still Gets Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals
From E&E Publishing, Gayathri Vaidyanathan: Heartland Institute finds route into U.S. science news conduit through China
About Soon’s apparent failure to follow disclose, and his funding sources:
The Boston Globe: Climate change skeptic accused of violating disclosure rules
Climate Investigations Center: Willie Soon Fails Conflict of Interest Test in Science Bulletin Article
About that petition to get him fired: Willie Soon, will he soon be fired?
from ScienceBlogs http://ift.tt/1tN5Mac
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