Oh, and then the other author of what jem thinks is good science? Willie Soon. Hmmmm, let's see what he is all about.....
In 2003, Willie Soon was first author on a review paper in the journal
Climate Research, with
Sallie Baliunas as co-author. This paper concluded that "the 20th century is probably not the warmest nor a uniquely extreme climatic period of the last millennium."
[23][24]
Shortly thereafter, 13 scientists published a rebuttal to the paper.
[25][26] They raised three main objections: (1) Soon and Baliunas used data reflective of changes in moisture, rather than temperature; (2) they failed to distinguish between regional and hemispheric mean temperature anomalies; and (3) they reconstructed past temperatures from proxy evidence not capable of resolving decadal trends.
[25][26] Soon, Baliunas and
David Legates published a response to these objections.
[27]
After disagreement with the publisher and with other members of the editorial board,
Hans von Storch, Clare Goodess, and two more members of the journal's ten-member editorial board resigned in protest against what they felt was a failure of the peer review process on the part of the journal.
[8][28] Otto Kinne, managing director of the journal's parent company, eventually stated that "CR [
Climate Research] should have been more careful and insisted on solid evidence and cautious formulations before publication" and that "CR should have requested appropriate revisions of the manuscript prior to publication."
[29]
Soon and Baliunas have also been criticised because their research budget was funded in part by the
American Petroleum Institute.
[30][31][32]
2011: Funding controversy[edit]
In 2011, it was revealed that Soon received over $1,000,000 from petroleum and coal interests since 2001.
[33] Documents obtained by
Greenpeace under the US
Freedom of Information Act show that the
Charles G. Koch Charitable Foundation gave Soon two grants totaling $175,000 in 2005–06 and again in 2010. Multiple grants from the American Petroleum Institute between 2001 and 2007 totalled $274,000, and grants from
Exxon Mobil totalled $335,000 between 2005 and 2010. Other coal and oil industry sources which funded him include the Mobil Foundation, the Texaco Foundation and the
Electric Power Research Institute. Soon has stated unequivocally that he has "never been motivated by financial reward in any of my scientific research" and "would have accepted money from Greenpeace if they had offered it to do my research."
[34]
On February 21, publications including
The Guardian and the
New York Times reported that Soon had failed to disclose conflicts of interest in at least 11 papers since 2008, and alleged that Soon had violated ethical guidelines of at least 8 of those journals publishing his work.
Charles R. Alcock, director of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, described the disclosure violations as "inappropriate behavior" that they would "have to handle with Dr. Soon internally".
[2][9] On the same day,
Nature reported that the CfA had launched an investigation into whether Soon had properly reported the funding arrangements shown in the documents. Alcock said "We want to get the facts straight. If there is evidence of failure to disclose, yes, we have a problem."
[38] He said that the contract with Southern preventing disclosure of their funding "was a mistake", and in a later email reply to questions said "We will not permit similar wording in future grant agreements".
[42] The Smithsonian announced that its Inspector General would investigate, and in addition there was to be a full review of the Smithsonian's ethics and disclosure policies about sponsored research,
[11][43] led by former
NSF director
Rita R. Colwell.
[44]
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^And that is just a sample.
These things have pointed out to jerm multiple times but he continues to use these kind of frauds and fools to support his lies.
In short jem is a fucking liar. Knows he is lying, and continues to do it and yet he thinks he is a good Catholic.
And now he will come back with some fake outrage and call me troll and seem amazed I could be saying this.
POS liar is all he is.
