William Happer

thumb|William Happer William Happer (born July 27, 1939) is an American physicist who has specialized in the study of atomic physics, optics and spectroscopy. He is professor of physics, emeritus, at Princeton University and a long-term member of the JASON advisory group, where he pioneered the development of adaptive optics. From 1991 to 1993, Happer served as director of the Department of Energy's Office of Science as part of the George H. W. Bush administration. Happer rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. He has no formal training in climate science, but he is an expert on the characteristics of the CO2-molecule due to his extensive work with CO2 lazers. Quotes I, and many other scientists, think the warming will be small compared the natural fluctuations in the earth’s temperature, and that the warming and increased CO2 will be good for mankind. May 20, 2010, testimony before the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming of the U.S. House of Representatives (William Happer Climate Science in the Political Arena May 20, 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20110116185525/http://globalwarming.house.gov/files/HRG/052010SciencePolicy/happer.pdf; Trump's New Climate Czar Bess Levin February 20, 2019 Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/william-happer-climate-change-panel) We know that carbon dioxide has been a much larger fraction of the earth's atmosphere than it is today, and the geological record shows that life flourished on land and in the oceans during those times. The incredible list of supposed horrors that increasing carbon dioxide will bring the world is pure belief disguised as science. Harrison H. Schmitt w:Harrison Schmitt William Happer In Defense of Carbon Dioxide May 8, 2013 The Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887323528404578452483656067190 Shut up...The demonisation of carbon dioxide is just like the demonisation of the poor Jews under Hitler. Carbon dioxide is actually a benefit to the world, and so were the Jews. 2014, to host Andrew Ross Sorkin on Squawk Box on CNBC (https://www.cnbc.com/2019/02/20/reuters-america-white-house-readies-panel-to-question-security-risks-of-climate.html White House readies panel to question security risks of climate Gardner Timothy 2019-02-20 CNBC Reuters; https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26446092/carbon-dioxide-hitler-jews-william-happer-climate-change-trump/ Esquire Jack Holmes February 21, 2019 The Head Honcho on Trump's New Climate Change Panel Compared Carbon Dioxide to Jewish People: Both, he said, have been wrongly persecuted; https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-climate-change-panel-william-happer-co2-jews-nazi-germany-hitler-a8789966.html The Independent February 21, 2019 Trump climate change panel set to be led by scientist who compared ‘demonisation’ of carbon dioxide to Holocaust Chris Baynes; Trump's New Climate Czar Bess Levin February 20, 2019 Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/william-happer-climate-change-panel; CNBC's Climate "Expert": "Demonization Of Carbon Dioxide Is Just Like" Demonization Of "Jews Under Hitler" Shauna Theel July 15, 2014 Media Matters For America https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2014/07/15/cnbcs-climate-expert-demonization-of-carbon-dio/200107) I like to call this the CO2 anti-defamation league, because, there is the CO2 molecule, and it has undergone decade after decade of abuse, for no reason. We’re doing our best to try and counter this myth that CO2 is a dangerous pollutant. It’s not a pollutant at all. . . . We should be telling the scientific truth, that more CO2 is actually a benefit to the earth. 2016, at the Crossroads III: Energy and Climate Policy Summit hosted by the Heritage Foundation (White House prepares to scrutinize intelligence agencies’ finding that climate change threatens national security Juliet Eilperin Missy Ryan February 20, 2019 The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/white-house-readies-panel-to-assess-if-climate-change-poses-a-national-security-threat/2019/02/19/ccc8b29e-3396-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html; Trump's New Climate Czar Bess Levin February 20, 2019 Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/william-happer-climate-change-panel) There’s a whole area of climate so-called science that is really more like a cult. It’s like Hare Krishna or something like that. They’re glassy-eyed and they chant. It will potentially harm the image of all science. February 15, 2017 (Trump's likely science adviser calls climate scientists 'glassy-eyed cult' The Guardian Hannah Devlin February 15, 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/15/trump-science-adviser-william-happer-climate-change-cult) I am trying to explain to my fellow Americans the serious damage that will be done to us, and indeed to the whole world, by cockamamie policies to ‘save the planet’ from CO2. March 17, 2016 (USA Today Asbury Park Press HAPPER: Man’s role in climate change minimal William Happer March 17, 2016 https://www.app.com/story/opinion/columnists/2016/03/17/climate-change-william-happer/81905412/; Trump's New Climate Czar Bess Levin February 20, 2019 Vanity Fair https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/william-happer-climate-change-panel) Temperatures have not risen very much, and most of the temperature rise is probably completely natural, and has nothing to do with increasing CO2. Industrialization probably played a small role, but I think it's very hard to tell how much. 2017 (It's the Golden Age of Climate Denial Jack Holmes https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a53805/climate-skeptics-trump-administration/ ; https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26446092/carbon-dioxide-hitler-jews-william-happer-climate-change-trump/ Esquire Jack Holmes February 21, 2019 The Head Honcho on Trump's New Climate Change Panel Compared Carbon Dioxide to Jewish People: Both, he said, have been wrongly persecuted) ...the public in general doesn't realize that from the point of view of geological history, we are in a CO2 famine....There is no problem from CO2. The world has lots and lots of problems, but increasing CO2 is not one of the problems. So [the accord] dignifies it by getting all these yahoos who don't know a damn thing about climate saying, 'This is a problem, and we're going to solve it.' All this virtue signaling. You can read about it in the Bible: Pharisees and hypocrites and phonies. Q&A: William Happer, Possible Science Advisor to the President February 6, 2017 Bob Grant The Scientist https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/qa-william-happer-possible-science-advisor-to-the-president-32065 Quotes about Happer Happer is a former Princeton physics professor who co-founded the group in 2015. Before that, he chaired the George Marshall Institute—dissolved around the same time of the CO2 Coalition's founding—and developed a reputation as one of the nation's premier climate skeptics. It's the Golden Age of Climate Denial Jack Holmes https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a53805/climate-skeptics-trump-administration/ March 12, 2017 Esquire Before he founded the CO2 Coalition, Happer chaired the George Marshall Institute and developed a reputation as one of the nation's premier climate "skeptics." The Institute received $865,000 from ExxonMobil between 1998 and 2011. (Elsewhere, ExxonMobil-funded think tanks have been found offering scientists $10,000-a-pop to undermine climate reports.) With a degree in physics from Princeton, Happer is unusually qualified to serve in this area—the various other deniers I spoke to for the story had degrees like a bachelor's in political science or a PhD in geography—but he is a professional denier all the same. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a26446092/carbon-dioxide-hitler-jews-william-happer-climate-change-trump/ Esquire Jack Holmes February 21, 2019 The Head Honcho on Trump's New Climate Change Panel Compared Carbon Dioxide to Jewish People: Both, he said, have been wrongly persecuted Happer, who worked at the Energy Department under George H.W. Bush and joined the White House in September to work on “emerging technologies,” is not formally trained as a climate scientist. White House prepares to scrutinize intelligence agencies’ finding that climate change threatens national security Juliet Eilperin Missy Ryan February 20, 2019 The Washington Post https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/white-house-readies-panel-to-assess-if-climate-change-poses-a-national-security-threat/2019/02/19/ccc8b29e-3396-11e9-af5b-b51b7ff322e9_story.html It’s important to note the person behind this attempt to chill our defense agencies from understanding and managing climate risk is Dr. Will Happer. Dr. Happer testified before Congress in December 2015 that the world has too little Carbon Dioxide and is too cold – an extreme, fringe view even for the tiny number of scientists who call themselves climate skeptics. This is a clumsy attempt to force the entire federal government to conform to a bizarre view thoroughly rejected by the vast majority of scientists. Rear Admiral David Titley, US Navy (Ret), Senior Member of the Advisory Board at the Center for Climate and Security and former Oceanographer of the Navy (Military and National Security Leaders Strongly Criticize Politicized “Presidential Committee on Climate Security” February 20, 2019 Council on Strategic Risks, https://climateandsecurity.org/2019/02/20/release-military-and-national-security-leaders-strongly-criticize-politicized-presidential-climate-security-committee/) External links Category:Physicists from the United States Category:Skeptics Category:1939 births Category:Living people Category:Princeton University alumni Category:Princeton University faculty Category:Cornell University faculty