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.
Prominent Climate Change Skeptic Received Over $1 Million from Oil, Coal Companies
HeadlineJun 29, 2011