{"id":6095,"date":"2015-02-28T08:38:28","date_gmt":"2015-02-28T13:38:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6095"},"modified":"2015-02-28T08:38:28","modified_gmt":"2015-02-28T13:38:28","slug":"harvard-smithsonian-profited-as-much-as-willie-soon-with-fossil-fuel-funding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6095","title":{"rendered":"Harvard-Smithsonian Profited as Much as Willie Soon with Fossil Fuel Funding"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/2015\/02\/27\/harvard-smithsonian-profited-much-willie-soon-fossil-fuel-funding\" target=\"_blank\">Harvard-Smithsonian Profited as Much as Willie Soon with Fossil Fuel Funding<\/a><\/h3>\n<p>Both Harvard and the Smithsonian Institute are trying to shake off\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.climateinvestigations.org\/willie-soon-harvard-smithsonian-documents-reveal-southern-company-scandal\" target=\"_blank\">the controversy surrounding Willie Soon<\/a>, but these esteemed organizations should not be let off the hook\u00a0easily.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, documents revealed by the Guardian and New York Times provide irefutable evidence that\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.desmogblog.com\/willie-soon\">climate denier Willie Soon<\/a>\u00a0and the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophyics received more than $1 million in funding from fossil fuel companies to deliver scientific reports that called into question the scientific conclusion that climate change is the result of burning too much oil, coal and other carbon-emitting fuel\u00a0sources.<\/p>\n<p>Harvard quickly tried to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/2015\/feb\/21\/climate-change-denier-willie-soon-funded-energy-industry\" target=\"_blank\">distance themselves from the Soon scandal<\/a>\u00a0telling the Guardian\u00a0that \u201cSoon operated outside of the university.\u201d This, despite the fact that Soon \u201ccarries a Harvard\u00a0<span class=\"caps\">ID<\/span>\u00a0and uses a Harvard email\u00a0address.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Smithsonian Institute also reacted quickly announcing that they have tasked\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/insideclimatenews.org\/news\/23022015\/smithsonians-inspector-general-probe-willie-soon\" target=\"_blank\">their Inspector General<\/a>\u00a0to look into the ethical conduct of Dr.\u00a0Soon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Smithsonian is greatly concerned about the allegations surrounding Dr. Willie Soon&#8217;s failure to disclose funding sources for his climate change research,\u201d they said in a statement shortly after the scandal broke over the\u00a0weekend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harvard-Smithsonian Profited as Much as Willie Soon with Fossil Fuel Funding Both Harvard and the Smithsonian Institute are trying to shake off\u00a0the controversy surrounding Willie Soon, but these esteemed organizations should not be let off the hook\u00a0easily. Earlier this week, documents revealed by the Guardian and New York Times provide irefutable evidence that\u00a0climate denier Willie [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[141,992,369,3831,705,3830],"class_list":["post-6095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-climate-change-denial","tag-global-warming","tag-harvard-smithsonian","tag-science","tag-willie-soon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6095"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6096,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6095\/revisions\/6096"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}