Climate Liar William Happer Says He Left WH Because "Brainwashed" Staff Found Climate Science Valid
William Happer, the 80-year-old physicist who recently resigned from his post as National Security Council senior director, is in Madrid trolling the U.N.’s COP25 climate conference for the Heartland Institute, one the nation’s leading climate disinformation operations. It’s his usual shtick.
He left the NSC post in September after his plan to run a "hostile review" of claims of climate scientists was shot down at the White House because some feared it might cost votes. Happer told Scott Waldman at Energywire Tuesday that the hang-up came from officials who have been “brainwashed” into accepting scientists’ consensus on climate. Happer calls the crisis a "completely imaginary threat that doesn't exist. People are afraid to stand up and say that.” Waldman reported:
He confirmed that the administration tried to draw attention away from the National Climate Assessment, a major report released every four years, by making it public late in the day on Black Friday in 2018. Happer said there were discussions about altering the report or withholding it altogether, but that officials decided it was politically risky to do so. "There's also the problem they've all been brainwashed, so many people in the Trump administration felt 'maybe it's right, how do I know, I'm just a lawyer,' most of them are lawyers," Happer said. "What finally happened was they diddled with it, they couldn't decide what to do, and so they decided 'we'll just not do anything to it, we'll release it at some time when the news media won't notice it, they'll be distracted by something else,' so they released it on Black Friday."
Happer, who has no professional training in climate science, has returned to Princeton as professor emeritus, and he’s rejoined the CO2 Coalition, where he was previously director. Funded by the right-wing Mercer Family Foundation, the coalition’s motto is, “Carbon dioxide, a nutrient vital for life.”
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