if they required further disclosure, and "would ask only that other authors—on all sides of the debate—are also required to make similar disclosures." He also requested that journalists who had reported on his actions similarly examined disclosure by other scientists. An investigation by InsideClimate News could find no cases where mainstream climatologists had failed to disclose the funding of their research. Unlike Soon, who had approached private funders directly, their funding was almost entirely obtained through open competitive peer-reviewed applications to public bodies. Climate scientist Andrew Dessler said "People always acknowledge their grants, and that's not really an issue". Though it was almost certain that a disclosure issue could arise, intentionally or otherwise, no instances were known. The nearest case was raised by Steven Milloy's "Junk Science" blog when Nature Climate Change published a 2012 study by meteorologist Kerry Emanuel, who was paid a fixed amount by two companies to sit on their board. Although the companies did not fund his research, the journal then added disclosure of these board memberships. The blog raised the same concern about a paper published a year later, but Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences decided this disclosure was not required. In April 2015, a Southern Company spokesman said "Our agreement with the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory expires later this year and there are no plans to renew it". It still required Soon to produce a study on "Solar Activity Variation on Multiple Timescales" by November 2015. See also Proxy (climate) Solar variation References External links Dr. Willie Soon: Selected Works, George C. Marshall Institute Testimony of Dr. Willie Soon, United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, July 29, 2003 Doctors for Disaster Preparedness Meeting, June 12, 2010 International Conference on Climate Change, May 22, 2012 1966 births Living people American astronomers American astrophysicists University of Southern California alumni Harvard University faculty Harvard–Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics people Academic staff of the University of Putra Malaysia George C. Marshall Institute Malaysian emigrants to the United States