To follow up on the last two posts, I decided to email the University of Turku to see if they had anything to say about the pitiable preprint on climate change picked up by the dregs of the online misinformation business. Here’s my email:

Dear Sir/Madam,
I am a concerned scientist that is struggling to understand several issues around the recently submitted arXiv preprint "NO EXPERIMENTAL EVIDENCE FOR THE SIGNIFICANT ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE" by Jyrki Kauppinen and Pekka Malmi, who claim to be members of the Department of Physics and Astronomy at the University of Turku.
The preprint in question is here: https://arxiv.org/pdf/1907.00165.pdf
This unfortunate exercise in pseudo-science was quickly picked up by various websites which aim to blur the line and create doubt about climate change, see, e.g.,
https://www.fitsnews.com/2019/07/11/man-made-global-warming-theory-takes-major-hit/https://www.rt.com/news/464051-finnish-study-no-evidence-warming/

Of course, scientists were quick to explain why this preprint was worthless, see, e.g.,
https://climatefeedback.org/claimreview/non-peer-reviewed-manuscript-falsely-claims-natural-cloud-changes-can-explain-global-warming/
But, as usual, the damage is already done to the minds of non-scientific people, not all of which are willing to believe in the reality of climate change.
I was wondering whether you could provide me with further information on this:
1) Are these two individuals still current salaried staff of the University of Turku?
2) Does the University of Turku have any position on this preprint?
3) Do either or both of the authors receive funding from sources that might influence them in trying to publish this kind of misleading pseudo-science? For instance, do either of them receive funding from the fossil fuel industry?
Thank you very much for your time, and I look forward to hearing from you.
Sincerely,
Kevin Bleakley

I’ll update if I get a reply.