And he sees AGW for just what it is
Physics professor William Happer GS ’64 has some tough words for scientists who believe that carbon dioxide is causing global warming.
“This is George Orwell. This is the ‘Germans are the master race. The Jews are the scum of the earth.’ It’s that kind of propaganda,†Happer, the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics, said in an interview. “Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Every time you exhale, you exhale air that has 4 percent carbon dioxide. To say that that’s a pollutant just boggles my mind. What used to be science has turned into a cult.â€
Happer served as director of the Office of Energy Research in the U.S. Department of Energy under President George H.W. Bush and was subsequently fired by Vice President Al Gore, reportedly for his refusal to support Gore’s views on climate change. He asked last month to be added to a list of global warming dissenters in a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee report. The list includes more than 650 experts who challenge the belief that human activity is contributing to global warming
Though Happer has promulgated his skepticism in the past, he requested to be named a skeptic in light of the inauguration of President-elect Barack Obama, whose administration has, as Happer notes, “stated that carbon dioxide is a pollutant†and that humans are “poisoning the atmosphere.â€
Happer maintains that he doubts there is any strong anthropogenic influence on global temperature.Â
It gets better
Happer said he is dismayed by the politicization of the issue and believes the community of climate change scientists has become a veritable “religious cult,†noting that nobody understands or questions any of the science.
He noted in an interview that in the past decade, despite what he called “alarmist†claims, there has not only not been warming, there has in fact been global cooling. He added that climate change scientists are unable to use models to either predict the future or accurately model past events.
Of course, the Believers will say “but, hey, he gets grants from the EVIL Oil companies!!!!” But they still can’t rebut what he states, and rely mostly on “reports” from people, many who are not even scientists, who have a vested interest in people believing that Man is responsible for the warming that had occurred, despite 4 billion years of history, and despite the Earth warming up because, gee, we were coming out of cooler period called the Little Ice Age. What caused the LIA to end? This is why they keep changing the starting points of global warming, and keep changing the name of what is happening, keep changing the goal posts, keep using the time frame for when Earth will be destroyed to when we all be pretty much dead of old age, and, oh, yeah, rarely actually change their own lifestyles to match their rhetoric.
