Willie Soon

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1966 –

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Who is Willie Soon?

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

In addition to writing a range of technical papers on astrophysics and the physics of climate change, Soon co-authored The Maunder Minimum and the Variable Sun–Earth Connection with Steven H. Yaskell. The book treats historical and proxy records of climate change coinciding with the Maunder Minimum.

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Born
1966
Kangar
Nationality
  • United States of America
  • Malaysia
Education
  • University of Southern California
Lived in
  • Malaysia

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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