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David Legates, a University of Delaware professor who has repeatedly questioned the scientific consensus that human activity is causing the climate crisis and has claimed that carbon dioxide emissions are beneficial, has been named by the Trump administration to a top leadership role at the federal government's climate research agency. 
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Donald Trump has appointed William Happer, a member of his national security team, to head up a new committee on climate security and climate change. The only problem is that Happer has repeatedly expressed doubt about the science of climate change, he’s called climate science belief a “cult,” and he’s even defended the increase in …
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"This beer virus I call it — they call it a coronavirus, I call it a beer virus — how do you like that?"...
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"Young has a documented history of making controversial remarks. He claimed that the 2010 BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico was "not an environmental disaster" but "a natural phenomena," used an anti-Latino racial slur when discussing the ranch hands who used to work for his father in 2013 and dismissed arguments that suicide is caused by mental illness in 2014." - Matthew Rozsa | Salon.com
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In 2016, retired Princeton physicist Professor Will Happer accepted an invitation from conspiracy theorist G. Edward Griffin to give a keynote at his conference to talk about the “positive effects of CO2.”
Griffin thinks the science behind global warming is a scam. He also thinks there is “no such thing” as the HIV virus and that some plane contrails are part of a political plot to spray the population with poisons. In an interview at the conference, Happer repeated his well-oiled mantra that "CO2 will be good for the Earth" and how it was "pretty clear we are not going to see dangerous climate change."
Under normal circumstances, you might think that Happer's association with a notorious anti-science conspiracy theorist might not look good on your résumè for a government science committee. However, these are not normal times.
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The United States military has repeatedly stated that climate change is a real threat to our national security. So on the subject of climate change, who are you going to believe? The selfless servants who protect our country, or this charlatan?
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