Guest essay by Eric Worrall
Professor William Happer, who has been tipped as front runner to replace John Holdren as the Whitehouse Science Advisor, has described climate scientists as a glassy eyed cult.
Trump’s likely science adviser calls climate scientists ‘glassy-eyed cult’
William Happer, frontrunner for job of providing mainstream scientific opinion to officials, backs crackdown on federal scientists’ freedom to speak out
The man tipped as frontrunner for the role of science adviser to Donald Trump has described climate scientists as “a glassy-eyed cult” in the throes of a form of collective madness.
William Happer, an eminent physicist at Princeton University, met Trump last month to discuss the post and says that if he were offered the job he would take it. Happer is highly regarded in the academic community, but many would view his appointment as a further blow to the prospects of concerted international action on climate change.
“There’s a whole area of climate so-called science that is really more like a cult,” Happer told the Guardian. “It’s like Hare Krishna or something like that. They’re glassy-eyed and they chant. It will potentially harm the image of all science.”
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Frankly I think this comparison is a bit harsh.
I don’t know how Krishnas behave elsewhere, but in Australia Hare Krishnas are a bit of a fixture. I enjoy an occasional feed at one of their vegetarian restaurants. Occasionally they wander over to talk about their religion, but they are not pushy – they take “no” for an answer. I have never known a Hare Krishna to demand someone else live according to their principles.
If climate scientists were that restrained about pushing their beliefs, about trying to inflict their life choices on others, I would have a lot less of a problem with the climate science community.
I only wish Happer was a younger man. The gauntlet run is long and extended. So much so for someone who already looks a little frail. A young man’s labor, me thinks. Roger A. Pielke Jr would be great choice. GK
Hare Krishna :
What to do with a lot of angry young men, ready for fight and no enemy discernible –
https://www.google.at/search?q=Buddhist+monks&oq=Buddhist+monks&aqs=chrome.
Griff, right on UK time, starts his daily job (At Barclays).
Ah! If only Barclays would pay me too!
any chance of you engaging in civil debate on the science at all?
Sure, when you present actual science. Until then, there is no debate to have with you.
Do Barclays know you’re posting you paid-for alarmist propaganda BS on their equipment in their time?
I can assure you that if you worked for me and dishonestly misused my IT like you misuse theirs you would have been dismissed immediately, quite possibly with a lawsuit.
As for civil debate, have you apologised to Dr. Crockford for maliciously attempting to damage her professional credibility, you mendacious little tw@ur momisugly?
Laser Spin-Exchange Polarized He-3 and Xe-129 for Diagnostics of Gas- Permeable Media with Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Imaging 1999
by William Happer
Now that is what I call spin.
What have we here.
While the Boomers were busy calling the AGW movement a “religion,” it seems that demographic might be completely missing a valuable opportunity for an assessment of where their own pet scientific theories ultimately led. And also, where they came from.