Surviving Capitalism (Not) : Leading Climate Denier and Harvard Scientist Took $1.2 Million Bribe From Oil Companies

We’ve lived so long under the spell of hierarchy—from god-kings to feudal lords to party bosses—that only recently have we awakened to see not only that “regular” citizens have the capacity for self-governance, but that without their engagement our huge global crises cannot be addressed. The changes needed for human society simply to survive, let alone thrive, are so profound that the only way we will move toward them is if we ourselves, regular citizens, feel meaningful ownership of solutions through direct engagement. Our problems are too big, interrelated, and pervasive to yield to directives from on high.
—Frances Moore Lappé, excerpt from Time for Progressives to Grow Up

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

Leading Climate Denier and Harvard Scientist Took $1.2 Million Bribe From Oil Companies

Click here to access article by Mihai Andrei from ZME Science.

Wei-Hock Soon, an aerospace engineer and a part-time employee at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics is one of the few respected scientists who spoke against the general consensus that human activity is a significant contributor to climate change. He has published 11 papers on climate change since 2008. However, it was recently shown that he received $1.2 million from oil companies in exchange for his “science”. According to leaked documents, the papers were simply “deliverables” that he completed in exchange for their money.

Funny how I haven't noticed this bit of news in my local corporate media, but it is covered in the Science section of the NY Times . We certainly heard about hacked emails among some British climate scientists back in 2009 which supposedly revealed that climate change data was manipulated. That was on mainstream media for weeks.