Climate change denier took $1.25 million from Koch brothers, energy companies: Greenpeace
Climate change denier took $1.25 million from Koch brothers, energy companies: Greenpeace
by Suzanne Goldenberg at the Guardian, Raw Story
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2015/02/climate-change-denier-took-1-25-million-from-koch-brothers-energy-companies-greenpeace/
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A prominent academic and climate change deniers work was funded almost entirely by the energy industry, receiving more than $1.2m from companies, lobby groups and oil billionaires over more than a decade, newly released documents show.
Over the last 14 years Willie Soon, a researcher at the Harvard-Smithsonian Centre for Astrophysics , received a total of $1.25m from Exxon Mobil, Southern Company, the American Petroleum Institute (API) and a foundation run by the ultra-conservative Koch brothers, the documents obtained by Greenpeace through freedom of information filings show.
According to the documents, the biggest single funder was Southern Company, one of the countrys biggest electricity providers that relies heavily on coal.
The documents draw new attention to the industrys efforts to block action against climate change including President Barack Obamas power-plant rules.
Unlike the vast majority of scientists, Soon does not accept that rising greenhouse gas emissions since the industrial age are causing climate changes. He contends climate change is driven by the sun .
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