Meet William Happer, high on the list to be Delirium Tremens' chief science advisor.
Meet William Happer, high on the list to be Delirium Tremens' chief science advisor. The notoriously reality-biased scientific journal liberal rag Nature reports:
Happer, an emeritus professor at Princeton, is no stranger to government: he directed energy research at the US Department of Energy from 1991 to 1993 and is a long-time member of JASON, a US defence advisory group.
He is also a well-known critic of mainstream climate science and as such, a frequent target of environmental activists.
In 2015, the environmental group Greenpeace UK announced that it had caught Happer in a sting operation. Greenpeace officials, posing as representatives of an unnamed Middle Eastern oil company, offered Happer money to write a report on the benefits of increasing atmospheric levels of CO2 — while keeping the funding source a secret. Happer agreed, and maintains that he did nothing wrong. He says that he told the ‘oil company’ officials that any payments should be sent to the CO2 Coalition, a US non-profit organization that promotes “the important contribution made by carbon dioxide to our lives and the economy”.
“My views are that the whole climate hysteria is greatly overblown,” Happer told Nature. “I really do believe more CO2 will be good for the world.” That contradicts decades of climate-change research that has linked rising greenhouse-gas levels in the atmosphere to everything from shifting ecosystems to rising seas.
Although his views on climate change are outside the mainstream, colleagues say that Happer is a solid physicist who has excelled at previous posts. “People are complex. That’s the only way to understand it,” says Lyman Page, who chairs the physics department at Princeton. “He cares deeply about the country, and he is a very principled person.”
http://www.nature.com/news/rumours-swirl-about-trump-s-science-adviser-pick-1.21336?WT.mc_id=GPL_NatureNews
Happer, an emeritus professor at Princeton, is no stranger to government: he directed energy research at the US Department of Energy from 1991 to 1993 and is a long-time member of JASON, a US defence advisory group.
He is also a well-known critic of mainstream climate science and as such, a frequent target of environmental activists.
In 2015, the environmental group Greenpeace UK announced that it had caught Happer in a sting operation. Greenpeace officials, posing as representatives of an unnamed Middle Eastern oil company, offered Happer money to write a report on the benefits of increasing atmospheric levels of CO2 — while keeping the funding source a secret. Happer agreed, and maintains that he did nothing wrong. He says that he told the ‘oil company’ officials that any payments should be sent to the CO2 Coalition, a US non-profit organization that promotes “the important contribution made by carbon dioxide to our lives and the economy”.
“My views are that the whole climate hysteria is greatly overblown,” Happer told Nature. “I really do believe more CO2 will be good for the world.” That contradicts decades of climate-change research that has linked rising greenhouse-gas levels in the atmosphere to everything from shifting ecosystems to rising seas.
Although his views on climate change are outside the mainstream, colleagues say that Happer is a solid physicist who has excelled at previous posts. “People are complex. That’s the only way to understand it,” says Lyman Page, who chairs the physics department at Princeton. “He cares deeply about the country, and he is a very principled person.”
http://www.nature.com/news/rumours-swirl-about-trump-s-science-adviser-pick-1.21336?WT.mc_id=GPL_NatureNews
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