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Where on earth do they find these cretins??
Trumps New Climate Czar: Carbon Dioxide Has Been Treated Just Like Jews Under Hitler
William Happer, who is spearheading a proposed White House panel on climate change, believes CO2 has undergone decade after decade of abuse, for no reason.
by Bess Levin
February 20, 2019 4:10 pm
Last year, on the Friday after Thanksgiving, the Trump administration released a terrifying report about climate change, which might as well have been simply titled, You Should Be Shitting Your Pants Right Now. The second volume of a federally mandated assessment, the 1,656-page investigation laid out the devastating costs associated with not taking immediate steps to combat climate change: $141 billion from heat-related deaths, $118 billion from rising sea levels, $32 billion from infrastructure damage by the end of the century, and so on. At the time, Donald Trump simply brushed the whole thing off, telling reporters, I dont believe it, even though, by his own admission, hed only read some of the report and his mind was probably elsewhere during the relevant sections (i.e. wondering if all the turkeys he didnt pardon were going to rise up and peck him to death) But with certain lawmakers, irksome citizens, and, um, the director of national intelligence insisting that climate change is the most imminent threat of our lifetime, the White House knew it needed to do more to convince people this whole thing was a hoax. And reader, the administration has truly outdone itself this time.
The Washington Post reports that the White House is assembling a panel to assess whether climate change poses a national security threat, headed by a guy who makes coal lobbyist-turned-Acting E.P.A. Administrator Andrew Wheeler look like a radical environmentalist. Yes, the administration has hired some real crackpots before, but this guy laps those suckers by miles. So, just who is William Happer? According to the Post, hes a former Energy Department staffer under George H.W. Bush who joined this White House in September to work on emerging technologies, and, naturally, has no formal training as a climate scientist. But what he lacks in relevant knowledge he makes up for in a deep and abiding love for carbon dioxide, which he said during a summit in December 2016 is not a pollutant at all and is actually a benefit to the earth, despite having been unfairly maligned by decade after decade of abuse, for no reason. And, of course, he thinks that abuse has some historical parallels.
Other choice quotes from Happer, who, shockingly, has received money from the fossil-fuel industry:
Its not as though if you double CO2 you make a big difference. You make a barely detectable difference. November 2017
Let me point out that if you have a well-designed coal plant, what comes out of the stack of the plant is almost the same thing that comes out of a persons breath. December 2016
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 2016
Warming and increased CO2 will be good for mankind. May 2010
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https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2019/02/william-happer-climate-change-panel?fbclid=IwAR1QweqVTOlpx4-r4pwlhu0D10PWKCYFnj6NsFXv-jo9JmbJ9w-6xMOAMt0
octoberlib
(14,971 posts)somebody even more horrific out of the nightmare closet.
happybird
(4,637 posts)He went there right off the bat, but someone still needs to tell this fool about Godwin's Law.
Serenity now. Serenity now.
agingdem
(7,863 posts)and every time a trumpian asshole references Hitler I know my mother and father are throwing up in their graves....
Claritie Pixie
(2,199 posts)Stuart G
(38,449 posts)MissMillie
(38,585 posts)heading a panel to study climate.
Can you imagine if every employer hired staff this way? Can you imagine going to the hospital for heart by-pass surgery and having a mechanic perform the surgery?
suffragette
(12,232 posts)to curtail them talking about climate change?
I wonder if Happer was part of that.
Retrograde
(10,163 posts)3catwoman3
(24,056 posts)...and see what he has to say about that.