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Prominent Climate Change Skeptic Received Over $1 Million from Oil, Coal Companies

HeadlineJun 29, 2011

Greenpeace has revealed that one of the world’s most prominent scientific figures to be skeptical about climate change has admitted to being paid more than $1 million in the past decade by major U.S. oil and coal companies. The climate skeptic, Willie Soon, works as an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Since 2001, he has received money from ExxonMobil, the American Petroleum Institute and Koch Industries, along with Southern, one of the world’s largest coal-burning utility companies.

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