- Willy Soon is an astrophysicist,
a geoscientist, an aerospace engineer
and researcher at The Solar
and still a physics division
of the Harvard Smithsonian
Centre for Astrophysics
based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
He has co-authored the Maunder minimum
and the variable sun-earth
connection with Steven Yatsko.
He contends that most global warming
is caused by solar variation
and not human activity.
Professor Soon is outspoken and clear.
We're going to have some fun
and we're going to have some
really strong points raised.
I'm sure of that.
- Yes, I have read your report
and in it, I think you mentioned something
that really puzzles me, of course,
in the sense that
when you look for Your Ask For Evidence,
they actually were trying to essentially,
I will say it out loud and be fair.
They were actually trying to bully you
by let's say, offering the evidence
from a paper published
in Science Magazine,
supposedly prestigious journal
and authored by a person
named Sean McCourt
with four or five authors.
I mean the senior authors
are distinguished professor,
of course at Oregon State
University in America.
But Sean McCourt, well, during that time
was actually doing his PhD thesis.
And I was very, very
shocked in the sense that,
you were talking to them
during the time period of 2016 to 2017.
And this paper by Sean McCourt
was published in 2013 roughly March.
And if the average citizen
do not know about some of these facts,
I think they can be excused,
but, moreso the professional scientists
knew that this piece of work
who attempted to claim
that over 10,000 years,
you have basically
temperature from high warming
from 10,000 years ago to
roughly about 6,000 years.
Very, very warm,
This occurred at mid
Holocene warm optimum,
and then cooled a little bit down
to let's say, 20th century.
And then they have this
one line that they patch,
what you call the indirect data,
hit the instrumental thermometer data
to look like there's a short
hockey stick jumping up.
And that is scientific malpractice.
There was no such thing
in the actual paper.
There was no such thing in
the Sean McCourt PhD thesis.
In fact, the paper was
completely fallen apart.
Thanks to science and technology.
Thanks to internet.
It was completely fallen apart
two weeks after the publication,
because the authors, two of
the senior authors, okay?
One of the person is Shakun,
Jeremy Shakun was at the
Harvard postdoc at that time
and then McCourt was still a student.
They both came out and said,
"Oh no, no, no, our
people didn't say that.
"Oh, our time resolution
"of our Holocene data
was 300 years at best,
"which mean we don't know anything
from an altered every 300 years.
"So how can you talk about a
100 years attaching to this,
to show there's crazy warming?"
What I'm trying to say is that
it is a form of bullying
because two weeks after publication,
this whole paper was completely destroyed.
And yet, you have somebody as high as Cyro
and chief scientists of Australia,
trying to say that this
paper is legitimate
and can be used as a
supporting scientific evidence.
By the way, that paper was cited.
They came out in March,
they were somehow mentioned in
the fifth assessment report,
- On the United Nation's?
- Which came out
- Yeah, United Nation's
report, the last report,
and used it to support an
even more famous hockey stick,
which is done by professor Michael Mann
for the last 1,000 years.
And this is the kind of
scientific malpractice
and I feel very sorry for them,
because I do not know what
give them the audacity,
but these are the facts.
And then I feel very sorry
for the average Australia,
especially the taxpayer.
Why are you paying for
this kind of nonsense?
It's actually nonsense.
And these people,
just because they have some
PhD degree under their name,
it doesn't mean that
they are very sensible.
In my humble opinion,
these people are highly misguided
and they are very, very
wrong in doing that.
They should not ought to be do that.
And I really thank you enormously
because I have met many politician myself.
Most of them do not have
the courage or conviction.
In fact, I think they're a bit lazy
because they don't want to learn science,
science seems to be a
bit too hard sometime.
People are all scared of science,
but for us, science is a wonderful tools.
Is one of those tools to enhance
and improve our knowledge,
to find that kind of understanding
about our natural war and our human war.
It's a wonderful thing.
