Top Trump science adviser candidate thinks climate scientists are a 'glassy-eyed cult'
Source: RawStory
BRAD REED
15 FEB 2017 AT 09:54 ET
Princeston physicist William Happer is reportedly the top candidate to be President Donald Trumps official science adviser and he really does not think much of climate scientists.
In an interview with the Guardian, the 77-year-old Happer describes climate scientists as more of a cult that he believes will undermine the publics trust in science as a whole. Theres a whole area of climate so-called science that is really more like a cult, Happer told the Guardian. Its like Hare Krishna or something like that. Theyre glassy-eyed and they chant. It will potentially harm the image of all science.
Happers skepticism of climate change research makes him a good fit for President Trump, who at one point claimed that climate change was merely a hoax concocted by the Chinese government to undermine American industry.
In addition to his opposition to mainstream climate science, Happer also supports muzzling scientists within the government from independently talking about their work without first getting clearance. So many people are fed up of listening to the government lie to them about margarine and climate change that when something is actually true and beneficial they dont listen, he told the publication. The government should have a reputation of being completely reliable about facts real facts.
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leftyladyfrommo
(18,874 posts)Botany
(70,614 posts)In over 2,200 peer-reviewed articles about climate change by over 9,000 authors, published between November 2012 and December 2013, just one author and paper rejected human actions as the cause.
http://www.popsci.com/article/science/infographic-scientists-who-doubt-human-caused-climate-change
Yavin4
(35,450 posts)That's a lot of glassy eyes.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)Botany
(70,614 posts)Where they have ice cores from all over the world that show
millions of data points about the link between green house
gases and the climate. The ice cores give the picture of what
the earth's climate was like in some cases they go back to
400,000 years.
TranssexualKaren
(364 posts)A few years ago the climate denial crowd produced 3,000 "scientists" who purportedly challenged the science of climate change.
I am a scientist!
I resent the fact that even if you can face down psuedoscientists the overall effect is to diminish the currency of the scientific method. Which is their ultimate goal.
Orrex
(63,233 posts)I've seldom seen a glassier-eyed cult than Trump's Chumps.
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)angstlessk
(11,862 posts)smog...
So upsetting. So insulting. So dangerous.
And such a contrast with the deeply competent scientific appointees to the Obama administration, at the Office of Science and Technology Policy, Dept. of Energy, and NOAA: John Holdren, Jane Lubchenco, Kathryn Sullivan, Steven Chu, and Ernie Moniz.
muriel_volestrangler
(101,390 posts)See http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028472755
plus:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/112750230
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002531938
http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017314454
(that's "pro-" as in "likes global warming, and therefore wants more CO2 emissions to increase it"
cab67
(3,010 posts)Not just that it's not a problem - that it's actually beneficial.
cab67
(3,010 posts)I don't know if the science advisor needs congressional approval, but I would ask Congress to withhold approval on anyone Lord Dampnut nominates on the grounds that he won't be in office for a whole lot longer.
RedWedge
(618 posts)BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)hatrack
(59,594 posts)Beyond that, can't think of a single reason why.
BumRushDaShow
(129,662 posts)and off somewhere at a kook convention spouting his nonsense outside of a real academic environment. But then emeritus makes sense (to establish some sort of "alternate" point of view).