Trump’s Climate Science Advisor William Happer Leaving

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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.”

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


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    John Nicol

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    That is a great shame as Happer really knew what he was talking about. The boffins in the whitehouse a everywhere else, are too strong even for Donald Trump. They will lead the world to destruction.

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    Mike D.

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    Very disappointing Trump has decided to not drain the Climate Change swamp. This scam if far more dangerous than Trump apparently realizes.

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    Carbon Bigfoot

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    Ivanka Trump has been responsible for this departure.

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    Norann Redding

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    Extremely sorry to see William Happer go. He was my hope for debunking the erroneous and crooked work being done by the climate alarmists concerning the “Global Warming” that didn’t happen and which then progressed to the term “Climate Change” that is needs no explanations because climate primarily changes due to our close relationship with the Sun and it’s cycles. Ivanka is just one of the many innocents who have grown up in the era of an educational system that does not follow the reliable scientific method. Manipulation of data creating false information is the problem and the result is greed, lies and egomania.

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