Physicist Happer Dubs COP25 an ‘Environmental Cult’ To Discuss ‘Nonexistent Climate Emergency’

Dec. 4, 2019 (EIRNS)—William Happer, former Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director of Emerging Technologies on the National Security Council and former head of the Physics Department at Princeton, was the keynote speaker at the Heartland Institute’s conference in Madrid, Dec. 2, “Rebutting the UN’s Climate Delusion.” He wasted no words at the outset, stating that those attending the COP25 summit in the same city were members of an “environmental cult” gathered to debate a “nonexistent climate emergency.”

“It’s hard to understand how much further the shrillness can go, as this started out as global warming, then it was climate change or global weirding, climate crisis, climate emergency—what next? But stick around; it will happen. I hope sooner or later enough people recognize the holiness of this bizarre environmental cult and bring it to an end.”

Happer said, “We have a climate crusade ... this is not science. It’s a religion.” And remember, he said,

“crusades have a bad way of ending. Typically many, many people are hurt, no good is done, but a few cynical opportunists profit and most people pay the price. The same thing will happen with the climate crusade if we permit it to go forward, and I pray that we can stop it before it does too much damage.”

As reported by E&ENews, Happer also discussed why he left his NSC position, observing that President Trump was very open to getting “some more rationality into climate policies.... Personally, he feels very strongly that way,” but “many of the people in the White House who advise him are nervous about the political implications of that.” At the NSC, Happer had intended to set up two opposing teams—a red team and a blue team—to review the accuracy of climate science, but his proposal was rejected, he said, by “brainwashed” White House officials. These same advisers refused to alter, or were too frightened to question, the alarmist 2018 National Climate Assessment which gave credence to climate pseudo-science.

Happer said that if President Trump is re-elected, it’s possible that the “red team idea” could resurface. And, he added, that, were Trump re-elected, he’d advise him to slash funding for climate science. There’s too much government funding going into this area, he said, “with the understanding that the results of the search have to reinforce the narrative that there is a crisis.”