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Why do you hand wave away the fossil fuel industry's disinformation campaign? Why do you ignore the hundreds of millions of dollars they've spent to disseminate lies about global warming and climate science to the American public? Doesn't it occur to you that a hundred scientists doing precisely what Willie Soon has been doing does a lot more harm to science than anything you've all been able to come up with?
what damage has Soon done? have you read any of his papers? you are surprised that an astro physicist would lean towards solar influence being dominant? perhaps you didnt like the paper he did with Baliunas that presented evidence that the MWP and LIA really existed? (laughable now but at the time the Hockeystick team were claiming the opposite). or his poking holes in Polar Bear science claims of climate change imminent extinction? judging from polar bear numbers who was more correct? should we post up the abstracts to see if they are wild eyed screeds against climate science or just ordinary peer reviewed science papers?
if anything, Soon has been a boon to the 'attack the reputation of the deniers' club. an introverted ESL scientist with no friend in high places and no press agent, an easy target. why is his funding from oil interests any different than pro-AGW scientists getting oil money funding?
ask a hundred random people to name a Willie Soon paper. I bet none could, but more than a few would be able to associate him with 'dirty' funding. tell me again what influence he has had on climate science other than be a whipping boy for anti-skeptic slurs.