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Leroy N. Soetoro
Jan 13, 2017, 11:59:01 PM1/13/17
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environment/wp/2017/01/13/trump-meets-with-princeton-physicist-who-says-
global-warming-is-good-for-us/?utm_term=.49d9751a5c9f
Yes, Donald Trump met with Al Gore. But on Friday, according to the Trump
transition team, the president-elect also met with William Happer, a
Princeton professor of physics who has been a prominent voice in
questioning whether we should be concerned about human-caused climate
change.
In 2015 Senate testimony, Happer argued that the “benefits that more
[carbon dioxide] brings from increased agricultural yields and modest
warming far outweigh any harm.”
While not denying outright that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide
levels will warm the planet, he also stated that a doubling of atmospheric
carbon dioxide would only cause between 0.5 and 1.5 degrees Celsius of
planetary warming. The most recent assessment of the United Nations’
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change puts the figure much higher, at
between 1.5 degrees and 4.5 degrees C.
“All trees, and many other plants, wheat, rice, soybeans, cotton, etc.,
are handicapped because, by historical standards, there currently is too
little, not too much, CO2 in the atmosphere,” read a slide contained in
Happer’s testimony.
“A dispassionate analysis of the science indicates that more CO2 will
bring benefits, not harm to the world,” he also said in the testimony.
Happer did not answer questions on his way into the elevator to meet with
Trump, according to pool reports. He did not immediately respond to
requests for comment from the Post.
E&E News, which was apparently first to report on the meeting, noted that
it was “unclear” whether Happer might be under consideration for energy or
science positions in the administration. There certainly remain many of
those to fill.
Happer is not wrong that carbon dioxide appears to bolster plant growth —
the greening up of the Arctic has, indeed, been observed. But that comes
with many other consequences, including melting of glaciers and thawing of
permafrost, which can emit still more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
“While we are perhaps lucky that CO2 has this effect on plant physiology,
in addition to being a greenhouse gas, it is not our ‘get out of jail
free’ card when it comes to our ongoing emissions of CO2,” climate
scientist Richard Betts of the U.K.’s Hadley Centre wrote on the subject
recently.
Happer is an eminent physicist who held prominent positions at the
Department of Energy, as well as at his university, and has 200 scientific
publications to his name. But in 2009 testimony, he went even further in
countering the scientific consensus on climate change, asserting that “the
current warming also seems to be due mostly to natural causes, not to
increasing levels of carbon dioxide.” Most scientists have been plain and
very clear that carbon dioxide is indeed the cause of most of the current
warming.
In a 2011 essay in the journal First Things, Happer further argued that
“the ‘climate crusade’ is one characterized by true believers,
opportunists, cynics, money-hungry governments, manipulators of various
types — even children’s crusades — all based on contested science and
dubious claims.”
The essay triggered an in-depth rebuttal from Michael MacCracken, a
climate scientist who formerly directed the U.S. Global Change Research
Program in the Bill Clinton administration, and who characterized it as
“so misleading that, in my view, it merits a paragraph-by-paragraph
response.”
The meeting may be most noteworthy as an example of how Trump plans to get
scientific advice — through meetings with people whose views are not
necessarily part of the mainstream. It’s not a model that most scientists
will approve of.
Trump has met individually not only with Happer, but also with Robert F.
Kennedy Jr., whose views on the safety of vaccines have been rejected by
scientific authorities. The meeting has caused alarm in the medical
community.
The president-elect has not yet named a presidential science adviser.
--
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party has run out of gas.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
His Omnipotence Barack Hussein Obama, declared himself "Pooptator" of all
mentally ill homosexuals and crossdressers, while declaring where they
will defecate.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he has been in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
Loretta Fuddy, killed after she "verified" Obama's phony birth
certificate.
environment/wp/2017/01/13/trump-meets-with-princeton-physicist-who-says-
global-warming-is-good-for-us/?utm_term=.49d9751a5c9f
Yes, Donald Trump met with Al Gore. But on Friday, according to the Trump
transition team, the president-elect also met with William Happer, a
Princeton professor of physics who has been a prominent voice in
questioning whether we should be concerned about human-caused climate
change.
In 2015 Senate testimony, Happer argued that the “benefits that more
[carbon dioxide] brings from increased agricultural yields and modest
warming far outweigh any harm.”
While not denying outright that increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide
levels will warm the planet, he also stated that a doubling of atmospheric
carbon dioxide would only cause between 0.5 and 1.5 degrees Celsius of
planetary warming. The most recent assessment of the United Nations’
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change puts the figure much higher, at
between 1.5 degrees and 4.5 degrees C.
“All trees, and many other plants, wheat, rice, soybeans, cotton, etc.,
are handicapped because, by historical standards, there currently is too
little, not too much, CO2 in the atmosphere,” read a slide contained in
Happer’s testimony.
“A dispassionate analysis of the science indicates that more CO2 will
bring benefits, not harm to the world,” he also said in the testimony.
Happer did not answer questions on his way into the elevator to meet with
Trump, according to pool reports. He did not immediately respond to
requests for comment from the Post.
E&E News, which was apparently first to report on the meeting, noted that
it was “unclear” whether Happer might be under consideration for energy or
science positions in the administration. There certainly remain many of
those to fill.
Happer is not wrong that carbon dioxide appears to bolster plant growth —
the greening up of the Arctic has, indeed, been observed. But that comes
with many other consequences, including melting of glaciers and thawing of
permafrost, which can emit still more carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.
“While we are perhaps lucky that CO2 has this effect on plant physiology,
in addition to being a greenhouse gas, it is not our ‘get out of jail
free’ card when it comes to our ongoing emissions of CO2,” climate
scientist Richard Betts of the U.K.’s Hadley Centre wrote on the subject
recently.
Happer is an eminent physicist who held prominent positions at the
Department of Energy, as well as at his university, and has 200 scientific
publications to his name. But in 2009 testimony, he went even further in
countering the scientific consensus on climate change, asserting that “the
current warming also seems to be due mostly to natural causes, not to
increasing levels of carbon dioxide.” Most scientists have been plain and
very clear that carbon dioxide is indeed the cause of most of the current
warming.
In a 2011 essay in the journal First Things, Happer further argued that
“the ‘climate crusade’ is one characterized by true believers,
opportunists, cynics, money-hungry governments, manipulators of various
types — even children’s crusades — all based on contested science and
dubious claims.”
The essay triggered an in-depth rebuttal from Michael MacCracken, a
climate scientist who formerly directed the U.S. Global Change Research
Program in the Bill Clinton administration, and who characterized it as
“so misleading that, in my view, it merits a paragraph-by-paragraph
response.”
The meeting may be most noteworthy as an example of how Trump plans to get
scientific advice — through meetings with people whose views are not
necessarily part of the mainstream. It’s not a model that most scientists
will approve of.
Trump has met individually not only with Happer, but also with Robert F.
Kennedy Jr., whose views on the safety of vaccines have been rejected by
scientific authorities. The meeting has caused alarm in the medical
community.
The president-elect has not yet named a presidential science adviser.
--
Donald J. Trump, 304 electoral votes to 227, defeated compulsive liar in
denial Hillary Rodham Clinton on December 19th, 2016. The clown car
parade of the democrat party has run out of gas.
ObamaCare is a total 100% failure and no lie that can be put forth by its
supporters can dispute that.
Obama jobs, the result of ObamaCare. 12-15 working hours a week at minimum
wage, no benefits and the primary revenue stream for ObamaCare. It can't
be funded with money people don't have, yet liberals lie about how great
it is.
His Omnipotence Barack Hussein Obama, declared himself "Pooptator" of all
mentally ill homosexuals and crossdressers, while declaring where they
will defecate.
Obama increased total debt from $10 trillion to $20 trillion in the eight
years he has been in office, and sold out heterosexuals for Hollywood
queer liberal democrat donors.
Loretta Fuddy, killed after she "verified" Obama's phony birth
certificate.
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