{"id":8161,"date":"2015-02-22T19:11:43","date_gmt":"2015-02-23T01:11:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/?p=8161"},"modified":"2015-02-23T16:01:31","modified_gmt":"2015-02-23T22:01:31","slug":"free_willie_soon_meme-williesoongate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregladen.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/22\/free_willie_soon_meme-williesoongate\/","title":{"rendered":"Get your free #WillieSoonGate meme!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Remember earlier this year when Senator James Inhofe stood on the floor of the United States Senate and displayed a list of supposed climate scientists who question the reality of global warming? That list was produced by the Heartland Institute<\/a>, who now use the list and it’s infamy to raise money. One of the “climate scientists” on that list was Willie Soon. We’ve talked about Willie Soon before (see: Science Denialists Make Fake Journal, Get Shut Down<\/a>, Willie Soon Gate<\/a>, and Willie Soon, will he soon be fired?<\/a>) and he is now been exposed by the New York Times for ethical violations.<\/a> I understand that he has testified before Congress before. I wonder if his testimony can now be re-examined. <\/p>\n

Anyway, just thought you’d like to know. And that you might enjoy the above meme. <\/p>\n

Oh, and there has been some interest in who is on the list. This is the list of “those who can not be challenged!”…<\/p>\n

DeSmogBlog has issued a NEW VERSION of the Heartland Poster with more accurate bios for each of the Heartland 58. GET IT HERE. <\/a><\/p>\n

And, here is the list:<\/p>\n

Habibullo Abdussamatov, Dr. Sci. Russia
\n Head of the Space Research Laboratory at the
\n Pulkovo Observatory and head of the Russian-
\n Ukrainian project Astrometria on the Russian
\n Segment of the International Space Station. He is the author
\n of more than 160 scientific publications.<\/p>\n

J. Scott Armstrong, Ph.D. USA
\n Professor at the Wharton School, University of
\n Pennsylvania, a founder of the Journal of Forecasting,
\n International Journal of Forecasting, and International
\n Symposium on Forecasting.<\/p>\n

Jerry Arnett, M.D. USA
\n A pulmonologist in private practice, an adjunct
\n scholar at the Competitive Enterprise Institute,
\n and a scientific advisor to the American Council on
\n Science and Health.<\/p>\n

Ron Arnold USA
\n Executive vice president of the Center for the
\n Defense of Free Enterprise, author of eight books,
\n researcher and editor of ten books, and columnist for
\n the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n

Dennis Avery USA
\n Senior fellow of the Hudson Institute, previously
\n a senior analyst in the U.S. Department of State
\n (1980\u201388), where he won the National Intelligence
\n Medal of Achievement in 1983.<\/p>\n

Tim Ball, Ph.D. Canada
\n Former professor of climatology, University of
\n Winnipeg, author of The Deliberate Corruption of
\n Climate Science.<\/p>\n

Robert Balling, Ph.D. USA
\n Professor in the climatology program in the School
\n of Geographical Sciences at Arizona State University.<\/p>\n

Joe Bastardi USA
\n Meteorologist, co-chief forecaster at Weatherbell
\n Analytics, long-time weather forecaster for
\n AccuWeather (1978\u20132011).<\/p>\n

E. Calvin Beisner, Ph.D. USA
\n National spokesman for The Cornwall Alliance for
\n the Stewardship of Creation, editor of The Cornwall
\n Alliance\u2019s electronic newsletter, and author or coauthor
\n of several major papers and articles on global warming
\n produced by The Cornwall Alliance.<\/p>\n

Larry Bell USA
\n Endowed professor of space architecture at the
\n University of Houston, where he founded and
\n directs the Sasakawa International Center for Space
\n Architecture. Author of Climate of Corruption: Politics and
\n Power Behind the Global Warming Hoax.<\/p>\n

Christopher Booker United Kingdom
\n Columnist at the Sunday Telegraph (London) and
\n author of The Real Global Warming Disaster: Is The
\n Obsession With \u2018Climate Change\u2019 Turning Out To Be
\n The Most Costly Scientific Blunder In History?<\/p>\n

Robert L. Bradley, Jr. USA
\n Founder and CEO, Institute for Energy Research;
\n adjunct scholar, Cato Institute; adjunct scholar,
\n Competitive Enterprise Institute; visiting fellow of
\n the Institute of Economic Affairs in London; and honorary
\n senior research fellow at the Center for Energy Economics at
\n the University of Texas at Austin.<\/p>\n

Barry Brill New Zealand
\n New Zealand barrister and solicitor, former Minister
\n of Science & Technology and Minister of Energy,
\n and current chairman of the New Zealand Climate
\n Science Coalition.<\/p>\n

Robert M. Carter, Ph.D. Australia
\n Palaeontologist, stratigrapher, marine geologist, and
\n environmental scientist, has held tenured academic staff
\n positions at the University of Otago (Dunedin) and
\n James Cook University (Townsville), where he was professor and
\n Head of the School of Earth Sciences between 1981 and 1999.<\/p>\n

George Christensen, MP Australia
\n Member of the Australian Parliament representing
\n Dawson, Queensland in the House of Representatives
\n since 2010. He is a member of the National Party.<\/p>\n

John Coleman USA
\n America\u2019s best-known TV weatherman, the original
\n weathercaster on Good Morning America, and founder
\n of The Weather Channel, serving as its CEO and
\n president during the startup and its first year of operation.<\/p>\n

Walter Cunningham USA
\n Pilot of Apollo 7, the first manned flight test of the
\n Apollo Program to land a man on the Moon. He is
\n a retired Marine Corps fighter pilot with the rank of
\n colonel, a successful businessman, entrepreneur, venture capitalist,
\n lecturer, and author.<\/p>\n

James Delingpole United Kingdom
\n English columnist who writes for The Times, The
\n Daily Telegraph, and The Spectator. He has published
\n several novels and four political books, including
\n Watermelons: The Green Movement\u2019s True Colors.<\/p>\n

Paul Driessen USA
\n Senior fellow with the Committee For A Constructive
\n Tomorrow and Center for the Defense of Free
\n Enterprise, author of Eco-Imperialism: Green Power,
\n Black Death (Merril Press, 2003).<\/p>\n

Don Easterbrook, Ph.D. USA
\n Emeritus professor of geology at Western
\n Washington University, where he has conducted
\n research on global climate change in western North
\n America, New Zealand, Argentina, and various other parts of
\n the world for the past 48 years.<\/p>\n

Myron Ebell USA
\n Director of energy and global warming policy at
\n the Competitive Enterprise Institute. He chairs the
\n Cooler Heads Coalition, representing more than two
\n dozen nonprofit groups in the U.S. and abroad that question
\n global warming alarmism and oppose energy rationing policies.<\/p>\n

Indur Goklany, Ph.D. USA
\n Former visiting fellow with the American Enterprise
\n Institute, the first Julian Simon Fellow at the
\n Political Economy Research Center in Bozeman,
\n Montana, author of The Improving State of the World.<\/p>\n

Fred Goldberg, Ph.D. Sweden
\n Associate professor at the Royal Institute of
\n Technology in Stockholm and CEO of the Swedish
\n Polar Institute.<\/p>\n

Stanley Goldenberg USA
\n Hurricane researcher based in Miami, Florida.
\n His primary research has been examining climatic
\n factors that influence the variability of hurricane
\n activity in the Atlantic on intraseasonal to multidecadal time
\n scales.<\/p>\n

Steve Goreham USA
\n Executive Director of the Climate Science Coalition
\n of America and author of Climatism! Science, Common
\n Sense, and the 21st Century\u2019s Hottest Topic, and The
\n Mad, Mad, Mad, World of Climatism.<\/p>\n

Tom Harris Canada
\n Executive director, International Climate Science
\n Coalition, former executive director of the Natural
\n Resources Stewardship Project (Canada), instructor
\n from 2009 to 2011 (four sessions) on the Faculty of Sciences at
\n Carleton University in Ottawa, Canada.<\/p>\n

Howard Hayden, Ph.D. USA
\n Professor of physics emeritus in the Physics
\n Department of the University of Connecticut, editor
\n of The Energy Advocate, author of A Primer on CO2
\n and Climate (2007) and A Primer on Renewable Energy (2009).<\/p>\n

Roger Helmer, MEP United Kingdom
\n Member of the European Parliament representing
\n the UK\u2019s East Midlands Region for the UK
\n Independence Party (UKIP). He graduated from
\n the University of Cambridge in 1965 with a degree in mathematics.<\/p>\n

Craig Idso, Ph.D. USA
\n Founder and chairman of the Center for the Study
\n of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change, coauthor
\n of Climate Change Reconsidered and other books on
\n climate change.<\/p>\n

Richard A. Keen, Ph.D. USA
\n Emeritus meteorology instructor at the University of
\n Colorado, academic scientist on the Juneau (Alaska)
\n Ice Field Research Program, and a former \u201ctornadochaser\u201d
\n for the National Center for Atmospheric Research and
\n the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.<\/p>\n

Madhav Khandekar Canada
\n Former research scientist from Environment Canada,
\n presently on the editorial board of the Journal of
\n Natural Hazards (Kluwer).<\/p>\n

William Kininmonth Australia
\n Former head of Australia\u2019s National Climate
\n Centre and consultant to the World Meteorological
\n Organization.<\/p>\n

David W. Kreutzer, Ph.D. USA
\n Senior policy analyst in energy economics and climate
\n change at The Heritage Foundation\u2019s Center
\n for Data Analysis, and previously a professor of
\n economics for 23 years at James Madison University in
\n Harrisonburg, Virginia.<\/p>\n

Hon. Vaclav Klaus, Ph.D. Czech Republic
\n Former president of the Czech Republic, first elected
\n in February 2003. An economist by education, he
\n has worked in research at the Institute of Economics
\n of the Czech Academy of Sciences and at the Czechoslovak
\n State Bank.<\/p>\n

David Legates, Ph.D. USA
\n Professor in the Department of Geography at the
\n University of Delaware, and an adjunct professor in
\n the Physical Ocean Science and Engineering
\n Program and the Department of Applied Economics
\n and Statistics.<\/p>\n

Jay Lehr, Ph.D. USA
\n Senior fellow and science director of The Heartland
\n Institute, an internationally renowned speaker, scientist,
\n and author who has testified before Congress on
\n more than three dozen occasions on environmental issues and
\n consulted with nearly every agency of the federal government
\n and with many foreign countries.<\/p>\n

Marlo Lewis, Ph.D. USA
\n Senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute,
\n where he writes on global warming, energy policy,
\n and other public policy issues.<\/p>\n

Richard Lindzen, Ph.D. USA
\n Sloan Professor of Atmospheric Sciences, Emeritus,
\n at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and
\n Distinguished Senior Fellow with the Cato
\n Institute.<\/p>\n

Craig Loehle, Ph.D. USA
\n Worked at the Department of Energy Laboratories
\n before joining the National Council for Air and
\n Stream Improvement in 1998. He has published
\n more than 150 peer-reviewed papers in forestry, ecology, geophysics,
\n modeling, and other fields.<\/p>\n

Anthony Lupo, Ph.D. USA
\n Professor of atmospheric science in the Department
\n of Soil, Environmental, and Atmospheric Science at
\n the University of Missouri, and past chair and director
\n of graduate studies for the department.<\/p>\n

Jennifer Marohasy, Ph.D. Australia
\n An Australian biologist who has worked for government
\n and industry. Currently a research fellow in
\n the Centre for Plant and Water Science at Central
\n Queensland University, Australia.<\/p>\n

Patrick Michaels, Ph.D. USA
\n Director of the Center for the Study of Science at
\n the Cato Institute, a past president of the American
\n Association of State Climatologists, and former program
\n chair for the Committee on Applied Climatology of the
\n American Meteorological Society.<\/p>\n

Christopher Monckton United Kingdom
\n Third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley, chief policy
\n advisor to the Science and Public Policy Institute.
\n He has held positions with the British press and
\n in government, as a press officer at the Conservative Central
\n Office, and as Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher\u2019s policy
\n advisor.<\/p>\n

Patrick Moore, Ph.D. Canada
\n Co-founder, chair, and chief scientist of Greenspirit
\n Strategies. Founding member and former president
\n and international director of Greenpeace, author of
\n Confessions of a Greenpeace Dropout: The Making of a Sensible
\n Environmentalist.<\/p>\n

Marita Noon USA
\n Executive director of Energy Makes America Great
\n Inc. and its companion educational organization, the
\n Citizens\u2019 Alliance for Responsible Energy.<\/p>\n

Joanne Nova Australia
\n Australian science writer, blogger, and speaker, author
\n of The Skeptics Handbook, Climate Money, and other
\n short books, and host of JoNova, a Web site.<\/p>\n

Ian Plimer, Ph.D. Australia
\n Chair of mining geology at The University of
\n Adelaide and emeritus professor of Earth sciences
\n at The University of Melbourne, where he was chair
\n and head from 1992 to 2005. Author of Heaven and Earth:
\n Global Warming \u2013 The Missing Science.<\/p>\n

Harrison Schmitt, Ph.D. USA
\n Harrison \u201cJack\u201d Schmitt is an American geologist
\n and a former NASA astronaut, university professor,
\n and U.S. Senator. He is the 12th and last person to
\n walk on the Moon.<\/p>\n

S. Fred Singer, Ph.D. USA
\n One of the world\u2019s most prominent atmospheric
\n and space physicists, he is founder and president
\n of the Science and Environmental Policy Project,
\n former distinguished research professor at George Mason
\n University, and professor emeritus of environmental science at
\n the University of Virginia..<\/p>\n

Willie Soon, Ph.D. USA
\n An astrophysicist and geoscientist based in
\n Cambridge, Massachusetts, he is the receiving editor
\n in the area of solar and stellar physics for the journal
\n New Astronomy and author of The Maunder Minimum and the
\n Variable Sun-Earth Connection.<\/p>\n

Roy Spencer, Ph.D. USA
\n Principal research scientist for the University of
\n Alabama in Huntsville and the U.S. Science Team
\n Leader for the Advanced Microwave Scanning
\n Radiometer (AMSR-E) on NASA\u2019s Aqua satellite. In the past,
\n he has served as senior scientist for climate studies at NASA\u2019s
\n Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, Alabama.<\/p>\n

Brian Sussman USA
\n For 20 years the San Francisco Bay Area\u2019s top television
\n meteorologist and science reporter, he is the
\n author of Climategate: A Veteran Meteorologist Exposes
\n The Global Warming Scam.<\/p>\n

George H. Taylor, CCM USA
\n President of Applied Climate Services, former director
\n of the Oregon Climate Service at Oregon State
\n University, former member of the Board of Certified
\n Consulting Meteorologists (chairman in 1995), and two-time
\n President of the American Association of State Climatologists
\n (1998-99 and 1999-2000).<\/p>\n

James M. Taylor USA
\n Senior Fellow for The Heartland Institute and former
\n managing editor of Environment & Climate
\n News, a national monthly publication devoted to
\n sound science and free-market environmentalism. He writes a
\n weekly column addressing environment issues for Forbes.com<\/p>\n

David Tuerck, Ph.D. USA
\n Professor of cconomics and executive director of
\n the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University in
\n Boston. Tuerck is an authority on tax policy analysis,
\n labor union issues, and macroeconomic stabilization policies.<\/p>\n

Paul E. Waggoner, Ph.D. USA
\n A distinguished scientist at the Connecticut
\n Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven, where
\n he was formerly director. His research has spanned
\n micrometeorology; stomates or leaf pores; plant disease epidemiology;
\n and land use by cities, crops, and forests.<\/p>\n

Anthony Watts USA
\n A 25-year broadcast meteorology veteran and currently
\n chief meteorologist for KPAY-AM radio,
\n he exposed shortcomings in the U.S. network of
\n weather stations and is host of the popular science blog, Watts
\n Up With That.<\/p>\n

Thomas Wysmuller USA
\n Trained as a meteorologist at New York University
\n and at the Royal Dutch Weather Bureau in
\n Amsterdam, he worked for five years throughout
\n NASA before, during, and after the moon landings. He is routinely
\n invited back to give science and meteorology lectures at
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