Starbucks is causing global warming???
That would be impending climate holocaust denier Physics professor William Happer. He is rather incendiary in his denial too.
Physics professor William Happer GS '64 has some tough words for scientists who believe that carbon dioxide is causing global warming.
Mr. Happer is a reasonable man. And being a reasonable man he gives his reasons for doubting man made CO2 caused climate change. In a statement sent to the Senate as part of his request, Happer explained his asoning for challenging the climate change movement, citing his research and scientific knowledge."This is George Orwell. This is the 'Germans are the master race. The Jews are the scum of the earth.' It's that kind of propaganda," Happer, the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics, said in an interview. "Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Every time you exhale, you exhale air that has 4 percent carbon dioxide. To say that that's a pollutant just boggles my mind. What used to be science has turned into a cult."
Happer served as director of the Office of Energy Research in the U.S. Department of Energy under President George H.W. Bush and was subsequently fired by Vice President Al Gore, reportedly for his refusal to support Gore's views on climate change. He asked last month to be added to a list of global warming dissenters in a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee report. The list includes more than 650 experts who challenge the belief that human activity is contributing to global warming.
I have spent a long research career studying physics that is closely related to the greenhouse effect, for example, absorption and emission of visible and infrared radiation, and fluid flow," he said in the statement. "Based on my experience, I am convinced that the current alarm over carbon dioxide is mistaken."BP is British Petroleum. Now why would they be interested in promoting global warming theories? Not to hard to figure out. Petroleum is a HYDROcarbon. Natural gas is a HYDROcarbon. As such it is at a competitive advantage to coal which is just plain CARBON. However, since water vapor is the most significant variable greenhouse gas, and since HYDROcarbons when burned make both CO2 and water vapor, then HYDROcarbons should actually be taxed more. And that hot steaming cup of coffee you have in the morning makes you an environmental criminal. You despoiler of the earth. Starbucks is ruining the Earth with all its hot beverages. The criminals.
And there is some troubling news that clouds the veracity of some climate change scientists. They are funded by oil companies. Happer said that he is alarmed by the funding that climate change scientists, such as Pacala and Socolow, receive from the private sector.
"Their whole career depends on pushing. They have no other reason to exist. I could care less. I don't get a dime one way or another from the global warming Issue," Happer noted. "I'm not on the payroll of oil companies as they are. They are funded by BP."
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