William Happer, an outspoken skeptic of climate change, is leaving his position as a senior director on the National Security Council later this week, according to E&E News.
The news of his departure comes just a day after Trump announced that national security adviser John Bolton was leaving his administration.
Bolton’s spokesperson is also reportedly exiting.
Happer’s decision to leave comes after he failed to persuade President Trump to conduct an “adversarial” review of research on climate change.
His effort to challenge the government’s position on climate change was scuttled earlier this year after facing obstacles from officials in the White House, according to E&E.
Happer, a prominent atomic physics professor at Princeton University, has repeatedly questioned the effect of human activity on climate change.
Despite having no formal training in climate science, Happer entered the Trump administration in September 2018 with well-known positions that pushed back against the scientific community’s understanding of global warming.
He asked the American Physical Society more than a decade ago to change its position on climate change to one that raised doubts about it. The request was rejected. He also wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2013 arguing that carbon dioxide production was “a boon to plant life.”
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He asserted that CO2 levels had “little correlation with global temperature.”
In addition, Happer has argued that the world is in a carbon dioxide “drought” and that burning more fossil fuels will make the Earth more habitable, E&E reported.
The news outlet noted that Happer earlier this year played a role in blocking a State Department official from giving written testimony to Congress warning that climate change posed a national security threat.
“After distinguished public service on the National Security Council staff for the past year, Dr. William Happer is returning to academia. We wish him well and thank him for his tireless efforts to ensure that the Trump Administration’s policies and decision-making were based on transparent and defensible science,” a National Security Council spokesman said in a statement to The Hill.
Read more at The Hill
Trump is hard on people.
Is he worried about losing the brain washed climate change vote? If so, why?
Opportunity lost .
Ask Ivanka Why .
“Despite having no formal training in climate science, Happer entered the Trump administration in September 2018” (climate scientists all consisted of physicists, geologists, etc until the last decade or two. (None of those with a ‘climate scientist’ PhD have been around long enough to make a mark)
“He also wrote a Wall Street Journal op-ed in 2013 arguing that carbon dioxide production was “a boon to plant life.” TRUE (ask any biologist or ecologist) The two essential molecules for life are H2O and CO2.
He asserted that CO2 levels had “little correlation with global temperature.” It doesn’t. When it does, as in the last several hundred thousand years, CO2 concentrations FOLLOW temperatures (by about 800 years). They don’t cause them to rise. Only since the 1970s to 1998 has CO2 gone up coincidentally with temperature. Yet while CO2 has kept rising at a steady rate since 1998, temperatures have remained flat. Temperatures in the first half of the twentieth century warmed and paused at rates indistinguishable from the second half when CO2 began to rise significantly. That leaves CO2 with an entirely beneficial impact on the biosphere.
In addition, Happer has argued that the world is in a carbon dioxide “drought” and that burning more fossil fuels will make the Earth more habitable, E&E reported”. 100% TRUE. Nature has had CO2 levels declining from 2500ppm over the last 150 million years. During glacial periods of our current ongoing Pleistocene/Holocene ice age, life-essential CO2 levels drop to within 30ppm of LETHALLY LOW CO2 levels. 100-150ppm
Happer is a breath of fresh air . Not hot air as in the Hollywood Hypocrite Club .
The bought and paid for climate models used to justify the scam are wrong .
In real science that should be the end of the story but it isn’t after 20 years of
MSM ignorance pumping the frauds tires .
So if CO2 was reduced to levels of 100 years ago would earths climate stop changing ? If you answer yes then good luck in Grade 2 .
The notion that humans fraction of 1% contribution of CO2 sets the earths thermostat underpins the biggest fraud in history .
I have yet to see a reputable scientist claim human use of fossil fuels
overrides the effect of natural occurring climate variables which themselves are highly unpredictable . Scientist have just admitted they can’t accurately forecast cloud cover a significant natural variable . Can they predict when a volcano is going to go off ? No. How about the biggest of all.. Sun Spot activity ? ERR well no actually .
In short the basis to the climate fear industry is based on unscientific garbage .
If not prove otherwise IPCC . You can’t or you would have done it .
Look some scientists got well paid to contribute to a fraud which was politicized to ensure insiders made a ton of dough . Some of the work was legit but the UN IPCC editors spun it the way they were paid to . They pulled it off way longer than they should have .
They knew exactly what they were doing and 10’s of thousands died each year because of what they did . Now to cover their ass they leak out …well you know we can’t really model clouds . In other words the models spun to be so certain are in fact crap .
Screw EXXON …who knew . The UN IPCC enabled mass unnecessary fuel poverty deaths and they know it .