Happer, who has taken money from the fossil fuel industry, says the carbon emissions that precipitate climate change are “not a pollutant at all,” that they’re “actually a benefit to the Earth.” Happer has stated in the past that “the demonization” of carbon emissions “is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler,” which is apparently his way of comparing climate scientists to Nazis. This ad hoc coterie of deniers reportedly will be spearheaded by a National Security Council adviser named William Happer, a guy with no formal training as a climate scientist. official) to “a deafening, piercing smoke alarm going off in the kitchen,” and even though Director of National Intelligence Daniel Coats warned in January that climate change poses a significant national security risk, Donald Trump is nevertheless hiring some flat Earth believers who will likely ratify his belief that climate change is a “hoax” that poses no threat to our national security. report in October compared the climate change crisis (in the words of one U.N.

Even though the federal government’s National Climate Assessment officially warned in November that the planet is truly imperiled, and even though a U.N. The Trump regime has trafficked in self-parody since its inception, so perhaps we’re already numb to the news that it intends to challenge the scientific consensus that climate change is a dire international emergency.

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