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| In February 2009 Happer testified before Congress, "I believe that the increase of ] is not a cause for alarm and will be good for mankind", for among other reasons because of its beneficial effects on plant growth.<ref>{{cite web | title=Climate change - statement of William Happer | url= http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=84462e2d-6bff-4983-a574-31f5ae8e8a42 | publisher=] | author=William Happer | date=February 25, 2009 | accessdate=2009-09-25}}</ref> | In February 2009 Happer testified before Congress, "I believe that the increase of ] is not a cause for alarm and will be good for mankind", for among other reasons because of its beneficial effects on plant growth.<ref>{{cite web | title=Climate change - statement of William Happer | url= http://www.epw.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Files.View&FileStore_id=84462e2d-6bff-4983-a574-31f5ae8e8a42 | publisher=] | author=William Happer | date=February 25, 2009 | accessdate=2009-09-25}}</ref> | ||
| Happer was listed as a signer of the petition of the ], no later than 2000, <ref name=OISM1>{{citation |url=http://web.archive.org/web/20000823175239/http://www.oism.org/pproject/pproject.htm#342 | |
Happer was listed as a signer of the petition of the ], no later than 2000, <ref name=OISM1>{{citation |url=http://www.oism.org/pproject/pproject.htm#342 |title=Signers H |year=2000|publisher=OISM |archiveurl = http://web.archive.org/web/20000823175239/http://www.oism.org/pproject/pproject.htm#342 |archivedate = 2000-08-23}}</ref> and ]'s 2009 letter. <ref name=CATO1>{{citation |url=http://www.cato.org/special/climatechange/alternate_version.html |title=With all due respect Mr President, that is not true |year=2009 |publisher=CATO Institute | accessdate=2011-01-23}}</ref> With ], ], Robert Austin, Larry Gould, and Roger Cohen, Happer led<ref name=APS0>{{citation |url=http://www.openletter-globalwarming.info/Site/Letter_to_Senate.html |title=A Gaggle Is Not a Consensus |year=2009}}</ref> the 2009 petition <ref name=APS1>{{citation |url=http://www.openletter-globalwarming.info/Site/2009_open_letter.html |title=2009 Open Letter |year=2009}}</ref> to the ] to change its position statement on climate change. The petition was signed by a few hundred of the 47,000 members and was rejected.<ref name=APS2>{{citation |url=http://physicsfrontline.aps.org/2009/11/10/aps-council-overwhelmingly-rejects-proposal-to-replace-societys-current-climate-change-statement |title=APS Council Overwhelmingly Rejects Proposal to Replace Society’s Current Climate Change Statement |year=2009}}</ref> | ||
| The Daily Princetonian quoted Happer:<ref name=APS3>{{citation |url=http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/01/12/22506/ |title=Professor denies global warming theory | author=Raymond Brusca |year=2009}}</ref> | The Daily Princetonian quoted Happer:<ref name=APS3>{{citation |url=http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/01/12/22506/ |title=Professor denies global warming theory | author=Raymond Brusca |year=2009}}</ref> | ||
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William Happer is a physicist who has specialised in the study of optics and spectroscopy. He is the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics at Princeton University .
Education
He studied physics at the University of North Carolina, graduating in 1960, and then gained his doctorate at Princeton in 1964.
Career
His academic career started at Columbia University where he became a full professor and director of the Columbia Radiation Laboratory. In 1980, he left to go to Princeton where he was later the Class of 1909 Professor of Physics. In 1991, he joined United States Department of Energy where he was the director of its research budget of $3 billion. In 1993, he returned to his position at Princeton where he became the chair of the research board in 1995.
In addition to these full-time positions, he has had numerous other assignments: chairman of the steering committee for JASON; trustee of the MITRE Corporation, the Richard Lounsbery Foundation and the Marshall Institute, of which he is also Chairman, since 2006. He co-founded Magnetic Imaging Technologies Inc. in 1994.
Global warming
In February 2009 Happer testified before Congress, "I believe that the increase of CO2 is not a cause for alarm and will be good for mankind", for among other reasons because of its beneficial effects on plant growth.
Happer was listed as a signer of the petition of the Oregon Institute of Science and Medicine, no later than 2000, and CATO Institute's 2009 letter. With Fred Singer, Harold Lewis, Robert Austin, Larry Gould, and Roger Cohen, Happer led the 2009 petition to the American Physical Society to change its position statement on climate change. The petition was signed by a few hundred of the 47,000 members and was rejected.
The Daily Princetonian quoted Happer:
Physics professor William Happer GS ’64 has some tough words for scientists who believe that carbon dioxide is causing global warming.
“This is George Orwell. This is the ‘Germans are the master race. The Jews are the scum of the earth.’ It’s that kind of propaganda,” Happer, the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics, said in an interview. “Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant. Every time you exhale, you exhale air that has 4 percent carbon dioxide. To say that that’s a pollutant just boggles my mind. What used to be science has turned into a cult.” ...
“All the evidence I see is that the current warming of the climate is just like past warmings. In fact, it’s not as much as past warmings yet, and it probably has little to do with carbon dioxide, just like past warmings had little to do with carbon dioxide,” Happer explained.
Honours
He is a fellow of the American Physical Society and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a member of the National Academy of Sciences. He received a Alfred P. Sloan fellowship in 1966, an Alexander von Humboldt award in 1976, the Herbert P.Broida Prize in 1997, the Davisson-Germer prize and the Thomas Alva Edison patent award in 2000. In 2003 he was named the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics at Princeton University.
References
- ^ Alan Shaw (2004), University research centers of excellence for homeland security, National Academies Press, ISBN 9780309092364
- Happer Named Institute Chairman (PDF), George C. Marshall Institute, 2006
- William Happer (February 25, 2009). "Climate change - statement of William Happer". U.S. Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works. Retrieved 2009-09-25.
- Signers H, OISM, 2000, archived from the original on 2000-08-23
- With all due respect Mr President, that is not true, CATO Institute, 2009, retrieved 2011-01-23
- A Gaggle Is Not a Consensus, 2009
- 2009 Open Letter, 2009
- APS Council Overwhelmingly Rejects Proposal to Replace Society’s Current Climate Change Statement, 2009
- Raymond Brusca (2009), Professor denies global warming theory
- "Happer and Ong named to endowed professorships". Princeton Weekly Bulletin. 2/24/2003.
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