Willie Soon

From ClimateWiki

Dr. Willie Soon is an astrophysicist at the Solar and Stellar Physics Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Soon received his Bachelor's and Master's Degrees from the University of Southern California. His PhD is in aerospace engineering.

Soon believes, and has testified before Congress, that most global warming is caused by solar variation.

Soon has also written a variety of papers and books on solar and stellar behavior as well as the physics of climate change.

Dr. Soon is an astronomer at the Mount Wilson Observatory, receiving editor with the journal New Astronomy, and is also the chief science advisor to the Science and Public Policy Institute, a nonprofit research institution which also discourages the concept of global warming.

He is the author of The Maunder Minimum and the Variable Sun-Earth Connection (World Scientific Publishing Company 2004).

Soon’s honors include a 1989 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Graduate Scholastic Award and a Rockwell Dennis Hunt Scholastic Award from the University of Southern California for “the most representative Ph.D. research thesis” of 1991.

Soon was recognized, with a monetary award, for “detailed scholarship on biogeological and climatic change over the past 1000 years” by the Smithsonian Institution.