He seems to not have any qualms about his taking of money from such as Exxon-Mobil, The Koch Bros and more. Climate Progress reports, "According to the documents, Soon received at least:
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$409,000 from Southern Company, a huge utility company whose giant coal plants regularly top the list of largest greenhouse gas emitters in the country
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$274,000 from the nation's main oil and gas lobby, the American Petroleum Institute
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$335,000 from ExxonMobil, though the oil giant stopped funding Soon in 2010 despite stopped funding Soon in 2010
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$230,000 from the Charles G. Koch Foundation, a billionaire whose money has been made mostly through oil refining
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$324,000 from anonymous donations via DonorsTrust, a fund set up to funnel money from the Koch brothers and other conservative funders to groups that promote climate science denial like the Heartland Institute and Americans for Prosperity
In many cases he referred to scientific papers or congressional testimony as "deliverables" in correspondence with his funders. Southern Company's agreement with Soon and Harvard-Smithsonian gave the coal utility the ability to review the scientific papers and suggest changes before they were published. "
Just the following online and other publications just recently have articles about this.
NEW YORK TIMES
CLIMATEPROGRESS.ORG
CROOKSANDLIARS.COM
SOURCEWATCH.ORG
DESMOGBLOG.COM
and many more, just
this week.
I rest my case.
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