‘Climate Security’ Panel May Give White House Skeptics New Voice

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The White House is considering establishing a presidential committee to assess the consensus of scientists and the Pentagon that climate change poses a national security threat

The move, being spearheaded by William Happer, a physicist and National Security Council senior director who has touted the benefits of carbon dioxide emissions, could give climate skeptics a platform to push back against conclusions reached by Pentagon and other agencies within Trump’s own administration that climate change is a major national security threat.

The idea drew swift condemnation from climate activists.

“The science and facts on climate change are well-established and do not need a administration-influenced review by an NSC headed panel,” said Ron Keys, a retired U.S. Air Force general and senior member of the advisory board at the Center for Climate and Security…

…the proposed committee…would “advise the president on scientific understanding of today’s climate, how the climate might change in the future under natural and human influences, and how a changing climate could affect the security of the United States.”

“It’s a great idea, spearheaded by a great guy,” said Steve Milloy, a policy adviser for the Heartland Institute, a group critical of climate science. “Sounds like the dishonest/know-nothing climate bedwetters in the national security apparatus — as well as those across the federal government — are about to get schooled in CO2 reality.”

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Greatest President of my life time. Absolutely the Greatest.

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This panel will be as real and as unbiased as Trump’s panel on voter fraud led by Kobach.  Anyone who thinks this will be a venture into reality is breathing something other than CO2.

". . . those who claim to know the Mind of God, who will tell you what God thinks and how He will judge and condemn others—those people are the greatest of all blasphemers." Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast

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From Wikipedia:

Happer rejects the scientific consensus on climate change. He has no formal training in climate science.

Just the type of person Trump would pick to head a panel dealing with climate.  Much like picking Kobach for the voter fraud panel because he was so good at it. . . fraud that is.

In December 2015, Happer was targeted in a sting operation by the environmental activist group Greenpeace. Posing as consultants for a Middle Eastern oil and gas company, they asked Happer to write a report touting the benefits of rising carbon emissions. Happer asked for the fee from this work to be donated to the “objective evidence” climate-change organization CO2 Coalition, which suggested that he contact the Donors Trust to keep the source of the funds secret as requested by Greenpeace. Hiding the sources of funding in this way is lawful under US law. Happer further acknowledged that his report would probably not pass peer-review with a scientific journal.

Gee, who would have guessed?

Happer described Trump as “very attentive” and that the president’s concerns “were that of a technically literate person.” Hannah Devlin of The Guardian wrote that Happer “supports a controversial crackdown on the freedom of federal agency scientists to speak out about their findings, arguing that mixed messages… have led to people disregarding all public health information.”

Well that’s understandable.  No way in hell he wants anyone with any credentials to question his bullshit.

 

". . . those who claim to know the Mind of God, who will tell you what God thinks and how He will judge and condemn others—those people are the greatest of all blasphemers." Aloysius Xingu Leng Pendergast

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Is William Harper the same “scientist” who touted that heavy metals like lead and mercury are beneficial to kids too?

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And smoking is good for you.

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“This committee will be a disaster for the bureaucrats pushing C.A.G.W.
Simply by calling them, before the committee, to explain their claims and forcing them to define their terms,will destroy the narrative.”

Might detract from the dems upcoming ‘impeachment’ agenda….

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Desert_Fox wrote:

And smoking is good for you.

And trees cause more pollution than automobiles.

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Desert_Fox wrote:

And smoking is good for you.

And global warming is great for you.

" All tyrannies rule through fraud and force, but once the fraud is exposed they must rely exclusively on force. " — George Orwell.

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And a full plate of bullshit is marvelous; just ask Harpo and Gruel.

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