In a May 2018 email with Wysmuller, Happer calls NASA chief __ Jim Bridenstine__’s change of heart on climate change—from questioning the science to accepting it— “a puzzle” and describes scientifically established rises in temperatures and sea levels due to climate change “part of the nonsense,” urging Bridenstine, copied on the message, to “systematically sidestep it.” The following February, the same month he was officially tasked with discrediting the risks of climate change on behalf of the government, Happer emailed NASA deputy administrator James Morhard to relay a complaint about the information included on NASA’s website from an anonymous climate denier who, and we would never suggest this but other’s might, could very well be Happer himself. “I’m concerned that many children are being indoctrinated by this bad science,” said the email. Happer’s previous comments about climate change, in addition to the Hitler/ISIL/Soviet ones, include “If plants could vote, they would vote for coal”; “serious damage. . . will be done to us, and indeed to the whole world, by cockamamie policies to ‘save the planet’ from CO2”; and “Warming and increased CO2 will be good for mankind.”

Shockingly, scientific organizations aren’t thrilled with Happer’s work with the federal government thus far. “We have concerns that there appear to be attempts by a member of the National Security Council to influence and interfere with the ability of NASA, a federal science agency, to communicate accurately about research findings on climate science,” Rush Holt, chief executive officer of the American Association for the Advance of Science, told the Associated Press. “These people are endangering all of us by promoting anti-science in service of fossil fuel interests over the American interests,” said Michael Mann, a Pennsylvania State University climate scientist. “It’s the equivalent to formulating anti-terrorism policy by consulting with groups that deny terrorism exists,” Matthew Nisbet, a professor of environmental communication and public policy at Northeastern University.

While the the National Security Council did not make Happer available to discuss the emails, his buddyies at the Heartland Institute defended him, saying NASA’s insistence on calling climate change a global threat “is a disservice to taxpayers and science that it is still pushed by NASA.”

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Trump doesn’t care if Xi meets with him at the G20

The people who will be affected by him subsequently slapping more tariffs on China might, but screw those guys!