Trump Meets With Physicist Who Says Benefits Of Climate Change Outweigh Any Harm

[SunSeeker]

Continuing to surround himself with like-minded climate deniers and skeptics, President-elect Donald Trump met Friday with none other than William Happer, the Princeton physics professor who believes global warming is “good for mankind.”

Happer, who served as director of energy research at the Department of Energy in the early 1990s under President George H.W. Bush, has championed the notion that we humans should increase rather than curb carbon dioxide emissions.Happer has also argued that today’s warming “seems to be due mostly to natural causes, not to increasing levels of carbon dioxide,” that children are being “force-fed propaganda masquerading as science” and has compared the “demonization of carbon dioxide” to the suffering Jewish people endured during the Holocaust.

“Carbon dioxide is actually a benefit to the world, and so were the Jews,” he told Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” in 2014.

E&E News was among the first to report on Friday’s meeting at Trump Tower. Although it remains unclear whether Trump is considering Happer for an administration position, the climate skeptic would be a fitting pick given the Republican’s previous choices.

http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_587957e7e4b09281d0eafc70

Comparing carbon dioxide to Jews really shows what a nut this guy is.

Happer has a scientific background but is not a climate scientist. He just wrote an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal. If he wants to dispute mainstream science, he should do so in a peer-reviewed science journal, not The Wall Street Journal. He has never published any peer-reviewed articles on climate science. He disputes that global warming is a problem by mentioning that CO2 levels were much higher in the distant past... when alligators roamed the Arctic, and most of Florida was underwater.

[1965Comet]

1. Global warming will not be a problem for Trump

until he cannot find a buyer for his half-submerged Mar-a-Lago...

[Maraya1969]

2. Dangers of carbon dioxide

Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a gas that's always present in your blood. It is the waste product generated as your body uses up oxygen, and it is expelled from the lungs when you exhale. At normal levels, its presence has no measurable adverse effects on you, but if your breathing is compromised or you are exposed to large amounts of this gas, you can experience a wide range of side effects, some of which include permanent injury and death.
Respiratory Effects

Carbon dioxide is known as an asphyxiant, which is a substance that bonds with your blood in place of oxygen. The website eMedMag.com notes that while most simple asphyxiants do not have any inherent toxicity of their own, cases of CO2 poisoning have been linked to central nervous system damage and permanent deterioration of respiratory functions. Because of these findings, CO2 is considered not just a simple asphyxiant, but a gas with acute systemic effects as well.
Cardiovascular Effects

If your blood becomes saturated with too much CO2, you develop the condition known as hypercapnia. Increased levels of CO2 also affect the pH level of your blood, turning it more acidic. This condition is called acidemia and, if prolonged, causes acidosis, which is injury to the body's cells by a rise in acidity that leads to faltering functions of the heart. Some possible outcomes of this interference with your heart include low blood pressure and cardiac arrhythmia.
Nerve Damage

HealthNewsFlash.com details the levels of damage your central nervous system can experience as a result of high acidity. These conditions are the result of temporary or permanent nerve damage brought on by acidemia, and include delirium, hallucinations, seizures, respiratory failure, coma or death.
Asphyxiation

As an asphyxiant, carbon dioxide displaces breathable oxygen and impairs pulmonary gas exchange. While asphyxiation is commonly associated with choking on a physical object or drowning, you can suffocate on CO2 without any visible abnormality or obstruction of your breathing. If the oxygen content of the air you breathe is insufficient, you slowly suffocate due to selective oxygen depletion until you experience permanent damage or death.



http://www.livestrong.com/article/218049-the-effects-of-too-much-carbon-dioxide-in-the-blood/

[Buckeye_Democrat]

7. That's not a big concern when dealing with parts-per-million changes...

of CO2 in the atmosphere.

It just doesn't take much CO2 in the atmosphere to reflect infrared (heat) waves back at Earth, affecting the energy in/out equation. The higher the atmospheric CO2 ppm levels, the more the greenhouse effect.

[Maraya1969]

3. Well here it is. He's a COB of a think tank operated by Exxon

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/George_C._Marshall_Institute

The George C. Marshall Institute (GMI) is a "non-profit" organization funded by the profits from oil and gas interests and right-wing funders (listed later). It has received substantial funding from Exxon's Exxon Education Foundation.[1]

I wonder how much he is paid by Exxon. Or how much money is slipped his way.


Their financial records are weird. Over $800,000 until 2014 then $0. If they threw in the towel who got the money?


ORGANIZATION NAME STATE YEAR FORM PAGES TOTAL ASSETS EIN
George C. Marshall Institute VA 2015 990 39 $0.00 22-2569466
George C. Marshall Institute VA 2014 990 32 $820,494.00 22-2569466
George C. Marshall Institute VA 2013 990 27 $980,010.00 22-2569466

[2naSalit]

6. Billowing smokestack there!

[Cha]

4. Of course the mofo does.

hope the greens who voted for stein are smugly happy now that we have a climate change denier rigged in.

[Crash2Parties]

10. You mean the Stein that invests in multinational energy corporations?

[Cha]

11. I mean the greens that voted for stein so now we have a fucked up

climate change denier in charge

[exboyfil]

5. Just another liberal professor with tenure

/sarcasm

Making its way to one of the worst analogies of all time.

[Maru Kitteh]

8. First, what the blue fuck? Second,

he needs to switch some of those letters around and visit with a PSYCHIATRIST. He isn't going to understand a single word a physicist says anyway.

[Generic Brad]

9. Why would anyone expect a physicist to be an expert on climatology?

That would be as insane as putting a brain surgeon in charge of HUD or someone with a B.S. in Animal Science in charge of the Department of Energy!