In a letter to John Koskin (Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service), Ann Leonard, Greenpeace US Executive Director, filed “concerns” by Greenpeace about who the Smithsonian Institute receives funding from, and the way they execute disbursements.

Leonard claims the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics mishandling of funding received by the Charles Koch Foundation resulted in an, “apparent violation” of Section 170(2)©(B) of the Internal Revenue Code.

Leonard explained that in its grant to the Smithsonian, Koch states, “the grant will not be used to influence legislation.”
She continued that Dr. Willie Soon, alleged solo recipient of Koch grant, abused the grant by using his findings on “Solar Variability and Climate Change…” in testimony given before the “House Energy and Environment Committee in the Kansas State Capitol.”

Leonard claims Dr.Soon was not to use grant monies from Koch, to “influence the outcome of that vote.”
Review of Leonard’s 2015 letter to the I.R.S., 2012 letter from Smithsonian to Greenpeace, other correspondence, Minutes of, and Dr. Soon’s testimony before January 2013 Kansas House Energy and Environment Committee brought the following questions:

If Ms. Leonard and Greenpeace have a “concern” with the Smithsonian’s bookkeeping, then why their decision to focus more on character assassinations of the Smithsonian, Dr. Soon and the Koch Foundation?

Greenpeace would have this reader believe that Dr. Soon’s testimony was a sales pitch in behalf of the “the fossil fuel industry.” Was it?

Did Greenpeace question each legislator who heard Dr. Soon, to learn why this solitary climate realist’s testimony apparently resulted in more “influence legislation” than did the collective testimonies of Dr. Johannes Feddema, Dr. John Christy, Chair Hedke’s IPCC comments, and Rabbi Moti Rieber?

Is Greenpeace accusing members of the Kansas General Assembly and the United States Congress the inability to disseminate information, ask objective questions and arrive at good decisions?

Why is the personal business of the Koch Foundation any business of Greenpeace? Did Koch hire Greenpeace to man internal affairs?

Does Greenpeace plan to hereon investigate each researcher from academia who testifies before any General Assembly or Congress?

Does Greenpeace plan to hereon investigate each contributor to any academia research department?

I see Greenpeace’s actions as a chilling threat to academia and research funding.

We should all be very concerned about Greenpeace’s actions, for if they prevail, they will stop every scientist, policy research analyst or expert in anything from testifying before congress or general assembly’s ever again.

If Greenpeace prevails, funding to universities, colleges, research labs will dry up. After all, what donor would enjoy taking time off from their work and pay an attorney and a CPA to address such claims?

If Greenpeace prevails, those of you reading this who eat food, heat your home, drive a vehicle, build anything at all, should be very, very concerned.

Why? Along with other environmental and animal rights activists, Greenpeace actions jeopardize domestic resource production, and severely diminish the livelihoods of our farmers, ranchers, energy providers, fishermen, loggers, miners and more.

Don’t believe me. Ask Patrick Moore. Do your own homework.

Thank you,
Roni Bell Sylvester
A Homemaker who receives her funding from a grey haired old farmer.
La Salle, CO
RoniBell@msn.com

Listed are Dr. Soon’s academic credentials and a few of his papers.

1991 Ph.D., University of Southern California, Aerospace Engineering (with distinction)
Dissertation Topic: Nonequilibrium Kinetics in High-Temperature Gases.
1987 M.Sc., University of Southern California, Aerospace Engineering.
1985 B.Sc., University of Southern California, Aerospace Engineering (Cum Laude).

1. J. A. Kunc and W. H. Soon, “Collisional-radiative nonequilibrium in partiallyionized
atomic nitrogen,” Phys. Rev. A 40, 5822 (1989).
2. W. H. Soon and J. A. Kunc, “Thermal nonequilibrium in partially-ionized atomic
oxygen,” Phys. Rev. A 41, 825 (1990).
3. W. H. Soon and J. A. Kunc, “The nitrogen plasma continuum emission associated
with N−(3P) and N−(1D) ions,” Phys. Rev. A 41, 4531 (1990).
4. W. H. Soon and J. A. Kunc, “Radiation of partially-ionized atomic hydrogen,”
Phys. Fluids B 2, 2833 (1990).
5. W. H. Soon and J. A. Kunc, “Kinetics and continuum emission of negative atomic
ions in partially-ionized plasmas,” Phys. Rev. A 43, 723 (1991).
6. J. A. Kunc and W. H. Soon, “Electron Boltzmann equation in non-thermal
plasmas,” Phys. Rev. A, 43, 4409 (1991).
7. J. A. Kunc and W. H. Soon, “Analytical ionization cross sections for atomic
collisions,” J. Chem. Phys. 95, 5738 (1991).
8. W. H. Soon, “Analytical cross sections and rate coefficients for H-H inelastic
collisions,” Astrophysical J. 394, 717 (1992).
9. J. A. Kunc andW. H. Soon, “Maximum principal quantum numbers of the atomic
hydrogen in the solar chromosphere and photosphere,” Astrophysical J. 396,
364 (1992).
10. W. H. Soon, S. L. Baliunas and Q. Zhang, “An interpretation of cycle periods of
stellar chromospheric activity,” Astrophysical J. Letters 414, L33 (1993).
11. W. H. Soon, Q. Zhang, S. L. Baliunas and R. L. Kurucz “The Mount Wilson
Observatory metallicity index, CRV : Comparison to other photometric systems,”
Astrophysical J. 416, 787 (1993).
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12. Q. Zhang, W. H. Soon, S. L. Baliunas, G. W. Lockwood, B. A. Skiff and R. R.
Radick “A method of determining possible brightness variation of the Sun in past
centuries from observations of solar-type stars,” Astrophysical J. Letters 427,
L111 (1994).
13. W. H. Soon, S. L. Baliunas and Q. Zhang, “Variations in surface activity of the
Sun and solar-type stars,” Solar Physics 154, 385 (1994).
14. S. L. Baliunas, R. A. Donahue, W. H. Soon, J. H. Horne, and others, “Chromospheric
variations in main-sequence stars. II,” Astrophysical J. 438, 269
(1995).
15. V. C. Cristian, R. A. Donahue, W. H. Soon, S. L. Baliunas, and G. W. Henry,
“Pulsation Timescales and Amplitudes in a Sample of Bright Semi-Regular Variable
Stars” Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific 107,
411 (1995).
16. H. J. Choi, W. H. Soon, R. A. Donahue, S. L. Baliunas, and G. W. Henry, “A
Study of Variability in a Sample of G–K Giants,” Publications of the Astronomical
Society of the Pacific 107, 744 (1995).
17. S. L. Baliunas, and W. H. Soon, “Are Variations in the Length of the Activity
Cycle Related to Changes in Brightness in Solar-type Stars ?” Astrophysical J.
450, 896 (1995).
18. S. L. Baliunas, D. D. Sokoloff, W. H. Soon (alphabetical listing with W. Soon
as lead author), “Magnetic Field and Rotation in Lower Main Sequence Stars:
An Empirical Time-Dependent Magnetic Bode’s Relation?”, Astrophysical J.
Letters 457, L99 (1996).
19. S. L. Baliunas, E. Nesme-Ribes, D. D. Sokoloff, W. H. Soon (alphabetical listing
with W. Soon as lead author), “A Dynamo Interpretation of Stellar Activity
Cycles”, Astrophysical J. 460, 848 (1996).
20. W. H. Soon, E. S. Posmentier, and S. L. Baliunas, “Inference of solar irradiance
variability from terrestrial temperature changes, 1880-1993: An astrophysical application
of the sun-climate connection”, Astrophysical J., 472, 891 (1996).
21. G. W. Henry, S. L. Baliunas, R. A. Donahue, W. H. Soon, and S. H. Saar, “Sunlike
stars with planetary systems: 51 Pegasis, 47 Ursae Majoris, 70 Virginis and
HD 114762”, Astrophysical J., 474, 503 (1997).
22. S. L. Baliunas, G. W. Henry, R. A. Donahue, F. C. Fekel, and W. H. Soon, “Properties
of Sun-like stars with planets: ½1 Cnc, ¿ Bo¨o, and À And”, Astrophysical
J. Letters, 474, L119 (1997).
23. S. Baliunas, P. Frick, D. Sokoloff and W. Soon (alphabetical listing with W. Soon
as lead author), “Timescales and trends in the Central England Temperature
Data (1659-1990): A Wavelet Analysis”, Geophysical Research Letters, 24,
1351 (1997).
24. P. Frick, S. Baliunas, D. Galyagin, D. Sokoloff and W. Soon, “Wavelet analysis of
stellar chromospheric activity variations”, Astrophysical J., 483, 426 (1997).
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25. W. Soon, P. Frick, and S. Baliunas, “Lifetime of surface features and stellar
rotation: A wavelet time-frequency approach”, Astrophysical J. Letters, 510,
L135 (1999).
26. W. H. Soon, S. L. Baliunas, A. B. Robinson, and Z.W. Robinson, “Environmental
Effects of Increased Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide”, Climate Research, 13, 149
(1999).
27. E. S. Posmentier, W. H. Soon, and S. L. Baliunas (equal contribution by Posmentier
and Soon), “Natural variability in an-ocean-atmosphere climate model”,
Journal of Physics Malaysia, 19, 157 (2000).
28. G. W. Henry, S. L. Baliunas, R. A. Donahue, F. C. Fekel, and W. Soon, “Photometric
and Ca II H and K Spectroscopic Variations in Sun-like Stars with Planets
III”, Astrophysical J., 431, 415 (2000).
29. W. H. Soon, S. L. Baliunas, E. S. Posmentier, and P. N. Okeke, “Variations of
solar coronal hole area and terrestrial lower tropospheric air temperature from
1979 to Mid-1998”, New Astronomy, 4, 563 (2000).
30. W. H. Soon, E. S. Posmentier, and S. L. Baliunas, “Climate hypersensitivity to
solar forcing ?” Annales Geophysicae, 18, 583 (2000).
31. W. Soon, S. Baliunas, K. S. Demirchan, S. B. Idso, K. Ya. Kondratyev, and E. S.
Posmentier, “The impact of anthropogenic CO2 emission on climate: Unresolved
Problems” (in Russian), Proceedings of the Russian Geographical Society,
133, 1 (2001).
32. W. Soon, S. Baliunas, S. B. Idso, K. Ya. Kondratyev, and E. S. Posmentier,
“Modeling climatic effects of anthropogenic CO2 emissions: Unknowns and uncertainties”,
Climate Research, 18, 259 (2001).
33. W. Soon, S. Baliunas, S. B. Idso, K. Ya. Kondratyev, and E. S. Posmentier,
Reply to Comments on“Modeling climatic effects of anthropogenic CO2 emissions:
Unknowns and uncertainties” by James Risbey, Climate Research, 22, 187
(2002).
34. J. Lin, W. Soon and S. Baliunas “Eruptive processes in the solar atmosphere and
the theories”, (in Chinese), Chinese Science Bulletin, 47, 1601-1612 (2002).
35. J. Lin, W. Soon and S. Baliunas “Theories of Solar Eruptions: A Review”, New
Astronomy Review, 47, 53 (2003).
36. W. Soon and S. Baliunas “Climatic and Environmental Changes of the Last 1000
Years”, Climate Research, 23, 89 (2003).
37. W. Soon, S. Baliunas, S. B. Idso, K. Ya. Kondratyev, and E. S. Posmentier,
Reply to Comments on“Modeling climatic effects of anthropogenic CO2 emissions:
Unknowns and uncertainties” by D. J. Karoly, J. F. B., Mitchell, M. Allen, G.
Hegerl, J. Marengo, F. Zwiers, Climate Research, 24, 93 (2003).
38. W. Soon and S. Baliunas “Annual Progress Report on Global Warming: 2001-
2002”, Progress in Physical Geography, 27, 448 (2003).
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39. W. Soon, S. Baliunas, C. Idso, S. Idso and D. R. Legates “Reconstructing Climatic
and Environmental Changes of the Past 1000 Years: A Reappraisal”, Energy &
Environment, 14, 233 (2003).
40. W. Soon, S. Baliunas, and D. R. Legates, Comment on “On Past Temperature
and Anomalous Late-20th Century Warmth”, Eos, 84 (no. 44), 473 (2003).
41. W. Soon, D. R. Legates and S. Baliunas, “Estimation and Representation of Long-
Term (> 40 years) Trends of Northern-Hemisphere-Gridded Surface Temperature:
A Note of Caution”, Geophysical Research Letters, 31, L03209 (2004).
42. J. Lin andW. Soon, “Evolution of Morphological Features of CMEs Deduced from
Catastrophe Model of Solar Eruptions”, New Astronomy, 9, 611 (2004).
43. P. Frick, W. Soon, E. Popova and S. Baliunas, “Time-spectra of chromospheric activity
of old solar-type stars: Detection of rotational signals from Double Wavelet
Analysis”, New Astronomy, 9, 599 (2004).
44. S. Baliunas, P. Frick, D. Moss, E. Popova, D. Sokoloff and W. Soon (alphabetical
listing), “Anharmonicity of Stellar Cycles: A wavelet quantification”, Solar
Physics, 224, 179 (2004).
45. W. Soon, “Variable solar irradiance as a plausible agent for multidecadal variations
in the Arctic-wide surface air temperature record of the past 130 years”,
Geophysical Research Letters, 32, doi.10.1029/2005GL023429 (2005).
46. S. Baliunas, P. Frick, D. Moss, E. Popova, D. Sokoloff and W. Soon (alphabetical
listing), “Anharmonic and standing dynamo waves: Theory and observation
of stellar magnetic activity”, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical
Society, 365, 181 (2006).
47. K. Olah, K. G. Strassmeier, T. Granzer,W. Soon, S. L. Baliunas “Changing stellar
activity cycles”, Astronomische Nachrichten, 328, 1072-1074 (2007).
48. M. Dyck, W. Soon (as co-first authors) et al. “Polar Bears of Western Hudson
Bay and Climate Change: Warming Spring Air Temperatures as the ‘Ultimate’
Survival Control Factor?”, Ecological Complexity, 4, 73-84 (2007).
49. W. Soon “Implications of the secondary role of carbon dioxide and methane forcing
in climate change: Past, present, and future”, Physical Geography, 28,
97-125 (2007).
50. G.W. Lockwood, B. A. Skiff, G.W. Henry, S. Henry, R. R. Radick, S. L. Baliunas,
R. A. Donahue, and W. Soon “Patterns of photometric and chromospheric variation
among sun-like stars: A 20-year perspective”, Astrophysical J. Suppl.
Series, 171, 260-303 (2007).
51. J. S. Armstrong, K. C. Green, W. Soon, “Polar bear population forecasts: A
public-policy forecasting audit”, Interfaces, 38, 382-405 (2008) (plus 3 comments
and our reply).
52. M. Dyck, W. Soon (as co-first authors) et al., “Response to Dyck et al. (2007) on
polar bears and climate change in western Hudson Bay by Stirling et al. (2008)”,
Ecological Complexity, 5, 289-302 (2008).
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53. J. Liu, B. Wang, Q. Ding, X. Kuang, W. Soon, E. Zorita, “Centennial variations
of the global monsoon precipitation in the last millennium: Results from ECHO-G
model”, Journal of Climate, 22, 2356-2371 (2009).
54. W. Soon, “Solar Arctic-mediated climate variation on multidecadal to centennial
timescales: Empirical evidence, mechanistic explanation, and testable consequences”,
Physical Geography, 30, 144-184 (2009).
55. W. Soon,“Comments on HESS Opinion ’A random walk on water’ by D. Koutsoyiannis”,
Hydrology and Earth System Sciences Discussions, 6, C2852-
C2856 (2009).
56. K. C. Green, J. S. Armstrong, W. Soon, “Validity of climate change forecasting
for public policy decision making”, International Journal of Forecasting, 25,
826-832 (2009).
57. K. Olah, Z. Kollath, T. Granzer, K. G. Strassmeier, A. F. Lanza, S. Jarvinen,
H. Korhonen, S. L. Baliunas, W. Soon, S, Messina, and G. Cutispoto, “Multiple
and changing cycles of active stars. II. Results”, Astronomy & Astrophysics,
501, 701-713 (2009).
58. M. M. Katsova, M. A. Livshits, W. Soon, S. L. Baliunas, and D. D. Sokoloff,
“Differential Rotation of some HK-Project stars and the butterfly diagrams”,
New Astronomy, 15, 274-281 (2010).
59. W. Soon and D. R. Legates, “Avoiding carbon myopia: Three considerations for
policy makers concerning manmade carbon dioxide”, Ecology Law Currents,
37, 1-9 (2010).
60. J. S. Armstrong, K. C. Green, W. Soon, “Research on Forecasting for the Manmade
Global Warming Alarm”, Energy & Environment, 22, 1091-1104
(2011).
61. R. Agnihotri, K. Dutta, and W. Soon, “Temporal Derivative of Total Solar Irradiance
and Anomalous Indian Summer Monsoon: An Empirical Evidence for
a Sun-Climate Connection”, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial
Physics, 73, 1980-1987 (2011).
62. W. Soon, K. Dutta, D. R. Legates, V. Velasco, and W. Zhang, “Variation in
Surface Air Temperature of China During the 20th Century”, Journal of Atmospheric
and Solar-Terrestrial Physics, 73, 2331-2344 (2011).
63. D. R. Legates, W. Soon, and W.M. Briggs, “Learning and teaching climate science:
The perils of consensus knowledge using agnotology”, Science and Education,
22, 2007-2017 (2013).
64. W. Soon, and D. R. Legates, “Solar Irradiance Modulation of Equator-to-Pole
(Arctic) Temperature Gradients: Empirical Evidence for Climate Variation on
Multi-decadal Timescales”, Journal of Atmospheric and Solar-Terrestrial
Physics, 93, 45-56 (2013).
65. D. R. Legates, W. Soon, W.M. Briggs, and C. Monckton of Brenchley, “Climate
consensus and misinformation: A rejoinder to Agnotology, Scientific Consensus,
and the Teaching and Learning of Climate Change”, Science and Education,
in press, doi:10.1007/s11191-013-9647-9 (2013).
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66. Willie Soon, Victor Velasco, Selvaraj Kandasamy, Rita Traversi, Ilya G Usoskin,
Chen-Tung A Chen, Jiann-Yuh Lou, Shuh-Ji Kao, Robert M Carter, Valery Pipin,
Mirko Severi, Silvia Becagli, “A review of Holocene solar-linked climatic variation
on centennial to millennial timescales: Physical processes, interpretative frameworks
and a new multiple cross-wavelet transform algorithm”, Earth-Science
Reviews, 134, 1-15 (2014).
67. David R. Legates, Willis Eschenbach, and Willie Soon, “Arctic albedo changes are
small compared with changes in cloud cover in the tropics” (Letter), Proceedings
of the (U.S.) National Academy of Sciences, in press (2015).
68. Rodolfo Gustavo Cionco, and Willie Soon, “A phenomenological study of the
timing of solar activity minima of the last millennium through a physical modeling
of the Sun-Planets Interactions”, New Astronomy, in press (2015).
69. K.M. Hiremath, H.Manjunath, andW. Soon, “Indian SummerMonsoon Rainfall:
Dancing with the Tunes of the Sun”, New Astronomy, in press (2015).