William Happer is in the running to be President Trump’s science advisor. With Scott Pruitt, a leading climate change denier recently selected to head the Environmental Protection Agency I’m fine with his position on the global warming - but he did trash Fleischmann and Pons in 1989. Here’s another member of JASON who disparaged F&P in 1989.
After all, despite the fact Donald Trump once famously called climate change a “hoax” which was “invented by the Chinese” and pledged to pull the US out of the Paris climate agreement, in recent weeks softened his stance a lot. Last month Mr Trump had a meeting with Leonardo DiCaprio, who is a fervent lobbyist for fighting climate change. In their meeting they discussed how alarmist jobs can boost the economy. Terry Tamminen, the CEO of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation, said they had a 90-minute meeting at Trump Tower in New York where they gave a presentation to Mr Trump, his daughter Ivanka, and other members of Trump’s team on how concentrating on renewable, clean energy could generate millions of job.
The USA citizens should decide whether they will support perspective research or they will protect their occupation in ineffective or declining industry and they will lose this occupation later with deeper consequences.