There\u2019s 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\u2019t 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.<\/p>\n
It all starts with this paper:<\/p>\n
Why models run hot: results from an irreducibly simple climate model<\/a>, published in the Science Bulletin of the Chinese Academy of Sciences<\/p>\n The paper is by Christopher Monckton<\/a>, Willie Soon<\/a>, David Legates<\/a> and William Briggs.<\/p>\n The paper has been examined by a number of scientists and others, and found wanting. Here is a selection of the critiques:<\/p>\n Roz Pidcock at The Carbon Brief: check: Scientists hit back at claims global warming projections are “greatly exaggerated”<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n William Connolley at Stoat: \u201cthe Monckton et. al [sic] paper is complete trash\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Thought Fragments: Monckton, Soon, Legates, and Briggs falsely claim to have presented a new climate model<\/a> (see also this comment<\/a> on that post.)<\/p>\n<\/li>\n And Then There\u2019s Physics: The designers of our climate<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Not Spaghetti: The Monckton equation<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Alexandray Cheung at Climate at Imperial College London: http:\/\/wwwf.imperial.ac.uk\/blog\/climate-at-imperial\/2015\/01\/23\/with-climate-models-simpler-isnt-necessarily-better\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n From the Daily Kos: Mocking Monckton\u2019s Climate Model<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n Brian Merchant at Motherboard: How Climate Change Denial Still Gets Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n From E&E Publishing, Gayathri Vaidyanathan: Heartland Institute finds route into U.S. science news conduit through China<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n The Boston Globe: Climate change skeptic accused of violating disclosure rules<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n Climate Investigations Center: Willie Soon Fails Conflict of Interest Test in Science Bulletin Article<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n About that petition to get him fired: Willie Soon, will he soon be fired?<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Willie Soon Controversy There\u2019s 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\u2019t have time to craft a … Continue reading Willie Soon Gate<\/span> \n
On getting bad climate science published in peer reviewed journals<\/h3>\n
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About Soon\u2019s apparent failure to follow disclose, and his funding sources:<\/h3>\n
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