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@Rabs1958 @AlchemistNinja2 @MarcEHJones @Veritatem2021 @3GHtweets @LottRan @Anymous84861064 @GillesnFio @S_D_Mannix @ItsTheAtmospher @navigator087 @Devonian1342 @GAJAJW @BenKoby1911 @Jaisans @bulkbiker @Climatehope2 @DenisDaly @Data79504085 @Mark_A_Lunn @Anvndarnamn5 @Michael_D_Crow @Hji45519156 @waxliberty @priscian @SuperFoxyLoxy @ChrisBBacon3 @JaapTitulaer @Willard1951 @wjack76995 @Rocky35418823 @NobaconEgbert @balls95652097 @BointonGiles @AristotleMrs @ammocrypta @SeekerTheGreat1 @ubique60 @EthonRaptor @RMcgillss @paligap17 @TheDisproof @MaggieL @Willy1000 @AuroriaTwittori @MartinJBern @gstrandberg1 @Jakegsm @EricWil06256732 1/17. That's false.

https://twitter.com/ncdave4life/status/1591843053287112704

2/17. That DeSmogBlog article about Will Happer is a brazen, despicable smear.

DeSmogBlog claimed that "Peabody Energy paid [Happer] $8,000 which was routed through the CO2 Coalition."

That's a LIE. Prof. Happer was not paid, because he asked that his entire fee be donated to charity.

3/17. DeSmog also falsely claimed, "Happer told Greenpeace reporters that he would be willing to produce research promoting the benefits of carbon dioxide for $250 per hour, while the funding sources could be similarly concealed by routing them through the CO2 Coalition."

That's ANOTHER LIE.

Happer did no such thing. Rather, he was asked to produce a white paper (which is not "research") explaining the best scientific evidence about the costs and benefits of fossil fuel use—and he generously asked that the fee for that work be donated to charity.

The CO2 Coalition @CO2Coalition is a 501(c)(3) educational charity. Happer didn't "route" anything "through" them. He very generously donated the fees to which he was entitled, to that very worthy charity.

4/17. Likewise, when Greenpeace activists lied about their identity to Prof. Happer, and solicited him to write a "white paper" about the costs and benefits of fossil fuel use, he asked them to not pay him, but, once again, to donate his fee to charity.

@Rabs1958 @AlchemistNinja2 @MarcEHJones @Veritatem2021 @3GHtweets @LottRan @Anymous84861064 @GillesnFio @S_D_Mannix @ItsTheAtmospher @navigator087 @Devonian1342 @GAJAJW @BenKoby1911 @Jaisans @bulkbiker @Climatehope2 @DenisDaly @Data79504085 @Mark_A_Lunn @Anvndarnamn5 @Michael_D_Crow @Hji45519156 @waxliberty @priscian @SuperFoxyLoxy @ChrisBBacon3 @JaapTitulaer @Willard1951 @wjack76995 @Rocky35418823 @NobaconEgbert @balls95652097 @BointonGiles @AristotleMrs @ammocrypta @SeekerTheGreat1 @ubique60 @EthonRaptor @RMcgillss @paligap17 @TheDisproof @MaggieL @Willy1000 @AuroriaTwittori @MartinJBern @gstrandberg1 @Jakegsm @EricWil06256732 5/17. What Greenpeace did was very dishonest. Unlike Greenpeace, Prof. Happer never lied, and never did anything which was in the slightest bit shady.

6/17. For Greenpeace and DeSmog to pretend that Prof. Happer's generosity was unethical is proof of corruption, certainly: Greenpeace's and DeSmogBlog's corruption, not Prof. Happer's.

7/17. Here's another illustration of Prof. Happer's generosity.

TheBestSchools @Best_Schools hosted an in-depth, online debate between leading figures in the climate wars: Prof. Happer represented the “skeptical” side, and Prof. David Karoly initially represented the “alarmist” side.sealevel.info/learnmore.html…

@Rabs1958 @AlchemistNinja2 @MarcEHJones @Veritatem2021 @3GHtweets @LottRan @Anymous84861064 @GillesnFio @S_D_Mannix @ItsTheAtmospher @navigator087 @Devonian1342 @GAJAJW @BenKoby1911 @Jaisans @bulkbiker @Climatehope2 @DenisDaly @Data79504085 @Mark_A_Lunn @Anvndarnamn5 @Michael_D_Crow @Hji45519156 @waxliberty @priscian @SuperFoxyLoxy @ChrisBBacon3 @JaapTitulaer @Willard1951 @wjack76995 @Rocky35418823 @NobaconEgbert @balls95652097 @BointonGiles @AristotleMrs @ammocrypta @SeekerTheGreat1 @ubique60 @EthonRaptor @RMcgillss @paligap17 @TheDisproof @MaggieL @Willy1000 @AuroriaTwittori @MartinJBern @gstrandberg1 @Jakegsm @EricWil06256732 @Best_Schools 8/17. After Drs. Happer & Karoly submitted their "major statements," Dr. Karoly dropped out. He apparently got discouraged, which I can certainly understand.

9/17. TheBestSchools ran a contest and solicited responses from climate alarmists, to find someone to replace Dr. Karoly in the conversation. They picked what they judged to be the most compelling response, by Mr. Glenn Tamblyn @GlennTamblyn, to represent the alarmist side of the argument.

@Rabs1958 @AlchemistNinja2 @MarcEHJones @Veritatem2021 @3GHtweets @LottRan @Anymous84861064 @GillesnFio @S_D_Mannix @ItsTheAtmospher @navigator087 @Devonian1342 @GAJAJW @BenKoby1911 @Jaisans @bulkbiker @Climatehope2 @DenisDaly @Data79504085 @Mark_A_Lunn @Anvndarnamn5 @Michael_D_Crow @Hji45519156 @waxliberty @priscian @SuperFoxyLoxy @ChrisBBacon3 @JaapTitulaer @Willard1951 @wjack76995 @Rocky35418823 @NobaconEgbert @balls95652097 @BointonGiles @AristotleMrs @ammocrypta @SeekerTheGreat1 @ubique60 @EthonRaptor @RMcgillss @paligap17 @TheDisproof @MaggieL @Willy1000 @AuroriaTwittori @MartinJBern @gstrandberg1 @Jakegsm @EricWil06256732 @GlennTamblyn 10/17. Prof. Happer, once again, asked TheBestSchools to donate all his fees to charity (his undergrad alma mater: UNC, this time).

Obviously Prof. Happer is not in it for the money.

You can read the Happer/Karoly/Tamblyn debate here:
sealevel.info/learnmore.html…

11/17. DeSmogBlog @DeSmog (Jim Hoggan etc.) is an absolutely unreliable and disreputable source. They worked with Peter Gleick @PeterGleick to smear Heartland with his forged "strategy memo," and they still, to this day, pretend that the forged document is genuine. If you're not familiar with that case, read on.

12/17. First, Gleick committed identity theft. He impersonated a Heartland Board of Directors member, to steal private documents from Heartland.

He had hoped to find something incriminating, with which to embarrass Heartland. But there was nothing like that in the stolen documents.

13/17. So Gleick (it was almost certainly him) forged another document, full of faked incriminating evil plans. To try to make the forged document sound legitimate, he interspersed the fabricated evil plans with real information from the stolen material.

14/17. Gleick and his DeSmogBlog cronies then distributed the stolen & fake documents together, to smear Heartland.

The (left-leaning) Atlantic had a pretty good article on Gleick's crimes, though they didn't mention DeSmogBlog's role:
theatlantic.com/business/archi…

15/17. Although Gleick got caught, it didn't hurt his career. His organization, The Pacific Institute @PacificInstitut announced a (fake) investigation which pretended to clear him of suspicion in the matter of the forgery, and they kept him as their President (now President Emeritus).

16/17. Gleick was rewarded for his crimes by @NatGeo's (now defunct) ScienceBlog subsidiary. He became their resident “scientist, innovator, and communicator” on global water, environment, climate, and presumably identity theft, fraud, character assassination, and forgery.

@Rabs1958 @AlchemistNinja2 @MarcEHJones @Veritatem2021 @3GHtweets @LottRan @Anymous84861064 @GillesnFio @S_D_Mannix @ItsTheAtmospher @navigator087 @Devonian1342 @GAJAJW @BenKoby1911 @Jaisans @bulkbiker @Climatehope2 @DenisDaly @Data79504085 @Mark_A_Lunn @Anvndarnamn5 @Michael_D_Crow @Hji45519156 @waxliberty @priscian @SuperFoxyLoxy @ChrisBBacon3 @JaapTitulaer @Willard1951 @wjack76995 @Rocky35418823 @NobaconEgbert @balls95652097 @BointonGiles @AristotleMrs @ammocrypta @SeekerTheGreat1 @ubique60 @EthonRaptor @RMcgillss @paligap17 @TheDisproof @MaggieL @Willy1000 @AuroriaTwittori @MartinJBern 17/17. Read more about the sordid affair, here:


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