DC: The Trump administration has brought on Princeton University physicist William Happer to serve as a national security adviser, sources told The Daily Caller News Foundation.
National Security Council (NSC) officials confirmed to TheDCNF Happer would be joining their team as the senior director for emerging technologies, but did not say if Happer had already begun working.
A source familiar with the matter said Happer started his NSC role on Tuesday. The NSC is headed by former United Nations Ambassador John Bolton.
Happer, an atomic physicist and prominent global warming skeptic, joins the national security team after more than a year of speculation the White House would bring him on as a science adviser, including as head of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Happer interviewed with then President-elect Donald Trump in January 2017, not long before Inauguration Day. Happer said in an interview last year that Trump agreed with his assessment that alarmism over man-made global warming had become a “cult.”
“Climate is important, always has been, but I think it’s become sort of a cult movement in the last five or 10 years,” Happer said in 2017.
“So in just a sentence or two, I said, ‘That’s my view of it,’” Happer said of Trump’s response. “And he said, Well, I agree with you. But that’s all we discussed.”
Happer is considered a skeptic of the theory that greenhouse gas emissions will lead to catastrophic global warming. On the contrary, Happer believes more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere is a good thing since it stimulates plant life. He has said the world is in a CO2 “drought” and fought the Obama administration’s labeling it as a “pollutant. more here
For such an out-of-control crazy idiot as the media portrays him, it is impressive the number of quality, serious, important people willing to work for his administration; Happer is a scientific heavyweight! …..Lady in Red
The left sees climate as a topic that contains complicated scientific data that can be manipulated and contorted to further their agenda. Unfortunately for them rational minds are at the helm and their grip on full control is slipping.
The pressure out there is building for an explosion as they become more and more frustrated.
To libs green = $
Dr. Happer, a physicist, and Gore, a politician, don’t see eye-to-eye on GW? What is it that Happer doesn’t “get”? Oh. Probably money.
meyou — Exactly right. Gore fancied himself the first “carbon tax credit” trillionaire with his cabal (including oblowme) at CCX — Chicago Climate Exchange.
There’s been a lot of analysis of the who’s and the why’s, but it all comes down to creating a crisis, then shaking down governments to pass legislation in support of carbon credits. Gore walked away with nearly $18 MM on the defunct CCX. Not a bad return on only a 3% share of the enterprise.
I’ve never understood why the SEC never investigated.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/obamas-involvement-in-chicago-climate-exchange-the-rest-of-the-story
Today: “Happer, an atomic physicist and prominent global warming skeptic, joins the national security team…”
Seven years ago: “Vietor, a campaign van driver and beer pong master, joins the national security team…”
Let me count the ways Trump is MAGA.
Thirdtwin- LOL! But but but Dems are ‘the party of science!’.
Dim’s icon of science: Bill Nye. LOL