Willie Soon, PH.D.

Dr. Willie Soon is an astrophysicist and geoscientist widely recognized as a leading authority on the Sun’s influence on Earth’s climate. For more than 34 years, he has investigated Sun-Earth relations across meteorology, climate dynamics, orbital interactions involving other planets, volcanic activity, and earthquakes. His research consistently challenges climate models and advocates who underestimate the role of solar variability in driving cloud formation, ocean currents, and atmospheric circulation. Despite facing sustained unethical and libelous attacks on his work and character, Dr. Soon has emerged as one of the most respected voices for climate realism. In 2018, he co-founded the Center for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (CERES-science.com) to pursue a broader range of scientific questions free from institutional prejudice.

Distinguished scientists, including Freeman Dyson, Richard Lindzen, William Happer, and the late Kary Mullis and Eugene Parker, have publicly praised Dr. Soon’s integrity and scientific courage.

From 1991 to 2022, Dr. Soon served as an astrophysicist at the Solar, Stellar and Planetary Sciences Division of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. He was astronomer at Mount Wilson Observatory (1992–2009), receiving editor for New Astronomy (2002–2016), and has served on the editorial board of Geoscience (MDPI) since 2020 and as Review Editor for Frontiers in Earth Science since 2022. He has held visiting professorships at institutions including the University of Putra (Malaysia), the Institute of Earth Environment (Xi’an, China), and the State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science at Xiamen University. Since 2021, he is currently affiliated with Hungary’s Institute of Earth Physics and Space Science.

His honors include the 1989 IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society Graduate Scholastic Award, the 1991 Rockwell Dennis Hunt Scholastic Award, the 2003 Smithsonian Institution Award, the 2004 Petr Beckmann Award (Doctors for Disaster Preparedness), the 2014 Courage in Defense of Science Award (George Marshall Institute), and the 2017 Frederick Seitz Memorial Award (Science and Environmental Policy Project).

He is the author of The Maunder Minimum and the Variable Sun-Earth Connection (World Scientific, 2004) and has co-authored key chapters in Climate Change Reconsidered II: Physical Science (2013) and Climate Change: The Facts (2014 and 2017). Dr. Soon has published over 150 refereed papers, at least 37 book chapters and articles, and delivered more than 100 invited presentations.