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Meet The Ostriches Under Consideration For Trump’s Anti-Science Climate
Panel
The list includes people who have called climate science a “cult” and
claimed Earth benefits from burning fossil fuels.
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By Chris D’Angelo
In its ongoing attempt to discredit decades of climate science, the Trump
administration is reportedly reaching out to some of the most seasoned
deniers on the circuit to join a new panel to present an alternative take on
climate change.
As The Washington Post first reported Sunday, the administration is
recruiting scientists and researchers to challenge the scientific consensus
that climate change is an immediate crisis driven by the world’s addiction
to fossil fuels. At the top of the committee’s target list will be the
National Climate Assessment, a congressionally mandated report that
scientists from 13 federal agencies released in November.
That report, which President Donald Trump said he doesn’t believe,
concluded that planetary warming “could increase by 9°F (5°C) or more by
the end of this century” without dramatic emission reductions.
The goal of this Presidential Committee on Climate Security will be to
conduct “adversarial scientific peer review” of climate science, E&E News
reported Monday, citing a leaked White House memo. For anyone who has
followed the Republican-led effort to cast doubt on the climate crisis, the
names that have emerged as possible panelists will be familiar.
Many have appeared at the congressional hearings Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas),
the former chair of the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology,
organized to peddle climate misinformation and his own anti-science views.
Trump’s reported pick to lead the panel is William Happer, a retired
Princeton physics professor with no expertise in climatology. E&E noted that
those under consideration also include Judith Curry, a former professor at
Georgia Tech’s School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences; John Christy, a
professor of atmospheric science at the University of Alabama in Huntsville;
and Richard Lindzen, a retired MIT professor.
Kert Davies, director of the Climate Investigations Center, told HuffPost
that the early list of candidates would indicate that the White House has
opted to turn to folks in academia rather than representatives of climate
denial think tanks. Though that might make it seem like they have more
credibility, all bring “different flavors of denial,” Davies said.
“These guys’ arguments are only held in high regard amongst a very small
club of climate deniers,” he said. “They are not included in mainstream
thinking about climate science. And they variously attack the temperature
record or the modeling.”
William Happer
Happer, who serves as Trump’s deputy assistant for emerging technologies on
the National Security Council, has a long history of colorful comments on
climate change. He has called climate science a “cult” and repeatedly
argued that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.
Physicist William Happer in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan on Jan. 13
, 2017.
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Physicist William Happer in the lobby of Trump Tower in Manhattan on Jan. 13
, 2017.
“The demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the
poor Jews under Hitler,” Happer said in a 2014 interview on CNBC. He added:
“Carbon dioxide is actually a benefit to the world, and so were the Jews.
”
Testifying before the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works in
2009, Happer said that the “increase of CO₂ will be good” for
humanity. And he compared today’s climate movement to the temperance
movement of the early 1900s that led to Prohibition.
“Deeply sincere people thought they were saving humanity from the evils of
alcohol, just as many people now sincerely think they are saving people from
the evils of CO₂,” he said.
Judith Curry
A retired climatologist known for mocking “climate alarmists,” Curry has
repeatedly been invited by Republican lawmakers, including Smith, to testify
at congressional hearings. While she accepts that the planet is warming,
she questions the scientific consensus about why.
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“Climate is always changing, and it’s going to change in the future,”
she said at a 2015 hearing of the House science committee. “The issue is
how much of the change is caused by humans. We don’t know.”
Curry came to the defense of Scott Pruitt, the former Environmental
Protection Agency administrator, when he told CNBC in 2017 that he didn’t
believe carbon dioxide was a primary contributor to global warming.
In an interview last week with National Geographic’s Andrew Revkin, Curry
said it seemed the White House was “the last bastion of hard-core denial.”
Still, she said she would serve on its new climate committee, if invited,
as long as panelists were there to follow the data where they lead.
John Christy
Christy, another favorite resource for Republicans, was appointed this month
to serve as a member of the EPA’s Science Advisory Board. Like Happer, he
often argues that burning fossil fuels is beneficial for the planet.
“There’s a benefit, not a cost, to producing energy from carbon,” he told
E&E News earlier this month. And in a 2015 interview with The Guardian,
Christy said: “Carbon dioxide makes things grow. Plants love this stuff. It
creates more food. There is absolutely no question that carbon energy
provides... longer and better lives.”
Christy opposes federal regulations targeting greenhouse gas emissions. And
in a 2007 editorial in The Wall Street Journal, he wrote that he sees “
neither the developing catastrophe nor the smoking gun proving that human
activity is to blame for most of the warming we see.”
Richard Lindzen
Lindzen is a distinguished senior fellow at the Cato Institute, a
libertarian think tank based in Washington, D.C., that is funded by the
fossil-fuel billionaire Koch brothers. Like Happer, Lindzen has equated
those who believe in climate change to cult members.
“As with any cult, once the mythology of the cult begins falling apart,
instead of saying, oh, we were wrong, they get more and more fanatical,” he
told a Massachusetts radio station in 2015, according to The Daily Mail.
Last year, Lindzen spearheaded a letter signed by more than 300 climate
skeptics urging Trump to pull the United States out of the United Nations’
climate convention. “Since 2009, the US and other governments have
undertaken actions with respect to global climate that are not
scientifically justified and that already have, and will continue to cause
serious social and economic harm — with no environmental benefits,” the
letter said.
In their own response letter to the president, more than 20 of Lindzen’s
colleagues at MIT wrote that they wanted to “make it clear that this is not
a view shared by us, or by the overwhelming majority of other scientists
who have devoted their professional lives to careful study of climate
science.”
Michael Mann, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, called
the list of names that has emerged as candidates for the White House panel
“a veritable dream team of climate change deniers, contrarians, and
downplayers.”
“Exactly what we would expect from an administration that, when it comes to
energy and environmental policy, is a rubber stamp for the Koch Brothers
and polluting interests,” Mann said in an email.
The committee would be a spinoff of sorts of the “red team, blue team”
initiative floated by Pruitt in 2017 that sought to give fringe, industry-
backed researchers a seat at the same table as actual climate scientists. As
an “ad hoc group,” Trump’s new committee would not be required to meet
in public or be subject to public records requests, according to The
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