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William Happer is set to lead a Trump panel on climate change: washingtonpost.com/national/healt…
Happer has previously argued that "the demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler"
Happer has previously argued that "the demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler"
That video was from 2014. Happer's position has not changed in the years since. @Jezebel published this email from Happer in 2017. theslot.jezebel.com/possible-trump… 
.@DeSmogBlog has a good run down of Happer's history desmogblog.com/william-happer
As you'd expect, Happer is a favorite of right-wing media for climate denial and obfuscation, from WSJ op-ed page mediamatters.org/research/2013/…
to Breitbart: mediamatters.org/blog/2015/12/1…
to Breitbart: mediamatters.org/blog/2015/12/1…
And of course there's ties to ExxonMobil
But my favorite Happer anecdote is the time that an undercover Greenpeace employee emailed him and blew the lid off the entire climate denier scam.
mediamatters.org/blog/2015/12/1…
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2642…
mediamatters.org/blog/2015/12/1…
assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2642…
One thing I didn't note earlier: Happer did a video attacking climate change for PragerU
