Climate Changed
Meet the CO2-Praising Physicist Behind the Latest Trump Climate Push
- William Happer has touted benefits of carbon dioxide emissions
- Happer urging new panel to re-evaluate climate change threat
Photographer: F. Carter Smith/Bloomberg
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The man behind a White House proposal to re-evaluate the national security risks of climate change is a physicist who once compared the maligning of carbon dioxide to the “demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler.”
William Happer is a National Security Council technology adviser spearheading an initiative to create a presidential committee on climate. He has long drawn scrutiny for insisting that rising carbon dioxide emissions are a boon for the planet, not a danger.