The Sun Also Warms: The Sun-Climate Link | Dr. Willie Soon

Lecture presented by Willie Soon, Ph.D. at the 18th Annual Meeting of the Doctors for Disaster Preparedness held in San Fransico, California; June 2000.

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Willie Wei-Hock Soon is an astrophysicist at the Solar and Stellar Physics Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Soon has testified before Congress on the issue of climate change. He is known for his views that most global warming is caused by solar variation.

In addition to writing a range of technical papers on solar and stellar behavior, the physics of climate change, and an astronomy textbook for students, Soon co-authored The Maunder Minimum and the Variable Sun--Earth Connection with Steven H. Yaskell (2004). The book treats historical and proxy records of climate change coinciding with the Maunder Minimum (c 1645-1715). In 2004 Soon was awarded the "Petr Beckmann Award for courage and achievement in the defense of scientific truth" by Doctors for Disaster Preparedness.

He is chief science adviser to the Science and Public Policy Institute, a think tank which disputes the belief that global warming is anthropogenic. Soon is also associated with the George C. Marshall Institute, where he co-authored Lessons and Limits of Climate History: Was 20th Century Climate Unusual? with Sallie Baliunas. The pair have also written for the Fraser Institute of Canada regarding Sun-climate connections. (Source: Wikipedia)

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