[Climate Change] Rajendra Pachauri and Willie Soon

The Soon fallacy

 

Nice fair & balanced post.

Roger Ailes approves

 

When open this forum and glance at the list of thread titles, the first thing that pops in my brain is Patchouli and Willie.

And that makes me smile.

 

I think the biggest issue here is conflict of interest. Good scientific researchers won't compromise their research just to gain funding. If this guy wants to prove that CO2 isn't causing climate change, he should do it without funding from oil companies. Of course, Soon is probably receiving even more money under the table, which makes it worthwhile for him to ignore ethical research standards.

Companies need to be more ethical while not compromising profit. I don't think it is naive to say it is possible to accomplish both. In fact, companies that have higher ethical standards usually find themselves doing quite well (e.g. being environmentally friendly and heavily advertising about being green).

 

Funding from any source is ok, as long as it is disclosed properly. In this case, I think he didn't which is a basic failure of ethnic in the Scientific community. More over, his science is pure Junks. The two together said he's just after money and doesn't deserve to be considered again ever.

The folks that readily uses him (such as the Right in Congress) is too easily fooled or doesn't care as long as it fit their beliefs.