Willie Wei-Hock Soon (born 1966) is an astrophysicist at the Solar and Stellar Physics Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He is known for his views that most global warming is caused by solar variation.
He is chief science adviser to the Science and Public Policy Institute, an organisation which devotes most of its scientific coverage to arguing against anthropogenic global warming or playing down the effects of global warming. In 2003, he was invited to testify in the United States Senate and was later recognized, with an award, for “detailed scholarship on biogeological and climatic change over the past 1000 years” by the Smithsonian Institution. In June 2004, he was presented with the Petr Beckmann award of the by Doctors for Disaster Preparedness for “courage and achievement in defense of scientific truth and freedom.”
Dr Willie Soon is the co-author of a famous article entitled Environmental Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide.
The 12-page review article rejects the human caused global warming hypothesis. The article and its conclusions is the scientific basis of the Global warming petition project where 31,486 American scientists have signed a petition, to urge the United States government to reject the Kyoto protocol -and any other similar proposal -because there is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of greenhouse gases is causing catastrophic heating of the Earth´s atmosphere.
