Will Happer
President Donald Trump just appointed William Happer for the key job of “senior director for emerging technologies” at the National Security Council.
But Happer literally believes that more carbon pollution “would be a benefit” to humanity, as he wrote in a widely mocked 2013 Wall Street Journal op-ed headlined “In Defense of Carbon Dioxide.”
So much for finding someone who understands that perhaps the most crucial emerging technologies for the security of America and all of humanity involve reducing carbon pollution. Sadly this continues the trend of this administration ceding the biggest job creating sector of the next few decades — clean energy — to the Chinese and Europeans, who are betting tens of billions of dollars on it.
Happer, a Princeton theoretical physicist is one of the most extreme climate science deniers, and someone who directly compared […]
