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Happer, who served as director of energy research at the Department of Energy in the early 1990s under President George H.W. Bush, has championed the notion that we humans should increase rather than curb carbon dioxide emissions.Happer has also argued that todays warming seems to be due mostly to natural causes, not to increasing levels of carbon dioxide, that children are being force-fed propaganda masquerading as science and has compared the demonization of carbon dioxide to the suffering Jewish people endured during the Holocaust.
Carbon dioxide is actually a benefit to the world, and so were the Jews, he told Andrew Ross Sorkin on CNBCs Squawk Box in 2014.
E&E News was among the first to report on Fridays meeting at Trump Tower. Although it remains unclear whether Trump is considering Happer for an administration position, the climate skeptic would be a fitting pick given the Republicans previous choices.
http://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_587957e7e4b09281d0eafc70
Comparing carbon dioxide to Jews really shows what a nut this guy is.
Happer has a scientific background but is not a climate scientist. He just wrote an opinion piece in The Wall Street Journal. If he wants to dispute mainstream science, he should do so in a peer-reviewed science journal, not The Wall Street Journal. He has never published any peer-reviewed articles on climate science. He disputes that global warming is a problem by mentioning that CO2 levels were much higher in the distant past... when alligators roamed the Arctic, and most of Florida was underwater.
1965Comet
(175 posts)until he cannot find a buyer for his half-submerged Mar-a-Lago...
Maraya1969
(22,497 posts)Carbon dioxide (CO2) is a gas that's always present in your blood. It is the waste product generated as your body uses up oxygen, and it is expelled from the lungs when you exhale. At normal levels, its presence has no measurable adverse effects on you, but if your breathing is compromised or you are exposed to large amounts of this gas, you can experience a wide range of side effects, some of which include permanent injury and death.
Respiratory Effects
Carbon dioxide is known as an asphyxiant, which is a substance that bonds with your blood in place of oxygen. The website eMedMag.com notes that while most simple asphyxiants do not have any inherent toxicity of their own, cases of CO2 poisoning have been linked to central nervous system damage and permanent deterioration of respiratory functions. Because of these findings, CO2 is considered not just a simple asphyxiant, but a gas with acute systemic effects as well.
Cardiovascular Effects
If your blood becomes saturated with too much CO2, you develop the condition known as hypercapnia. Increased levels of CO2 also affect the pH level of your blood, turning it more acidic. This condition is called acidemia and, if prolonged, causes acidosis, which is injury to the body's cells by a rise in acidity that leads to faltering functions of the heart. Some possible outcomes of this interference with your heart include low blood pressure and cardiac arrhythmia.
Nerve Damage
HealthNewsFlash.com details the levels of damage your central nervous system can experience as a result of high acidity. These conditions are the result of temporary or permanent nerve damage brought on by acidemia, and include delirium, hallucinations, seizures, respiratory failure, coma or death.
Asphyxiation
As an asphyxiant, carbon dioxide displaces breathable oxygen and impairs pulmonary gas exchange. While asphyxiation is commonly associated with choking on a physical object or drowning, you can suffocate on CO2 without any visible abnormality or obstruction of your breathing. If the oxygen content of the air you breathe is insufficient, you slowly suffocate due to selective oxygen depletion until you experience permanent damage or death.
http://www.livestrong.com/article/218049-the-effects-of-too-much-carbon-dioxide-in-the-blood/
Buckeye_Democrat
(14,856 posts)of CO2 in the atmosphere.
It just doesn't take much CO2 in the atmosphere to reflect infrared (heat) waves back at Earth, affecting the energy in/out equation. The higher the atmospheric CO2 ppm levels, the more the greenhouse effect.
Maraya1969
(22,497 posts)The George C. Marshall Institute (GMI) is a "non-profit" organization funded by the profits from oil and gas interests and right-wing funders (listed later). It has received substantial funding from Exxon's Exxon Education Foundation.[1]
I wonder how much he is paid by Exxon. Or how much money is slipped his way.
Their financial records are weird. Over $800,000 until 2014 then $0. If they threw in the towel who got the money?
ORGANIZATION NAME STATE YEAR FORM PAGES TOTAL ASSETS EIN
George C. Marshall Institute VA 2015 990 39 $0.00 22-2569466
George C. Marshall Institute VA 2014 990 32 $820,494.00 22-2569466
George C. Marshall Institute VA 2013 990 27 $980,010.00 22-2569466
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)hope the greens who voted for stein are smugly happy now that we have a climate change denier rigged in.
Crash2Parties
(6,017 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)climate change denier in charge
exboyfil
(17,865 posts)/sarcasm
Making its way to one of the worst analogies of all time.
Maru Kitteh
(28,342 posts)he needs to switch some of those letters around and visit with a PSYCHIATRIST. He isn't going to understand a single word a physicist says anyway.
Generic Brad
(14,275 posts)That would be as insane as putting a brain surgeon in charge of HUD or someone with a B.S. in Animal Science in charge of the Department of Energy!