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Emails: Trump official consulted global warming rejecters

Continued from Front scientists who reject what
numerous federal agen-
In a March 3 email ex- cies say is the fact of cli-
change Happer and Heart- mate change.
land adviser Hal Doiron “These people are endan-
discuss Happer’s scientific gering all of us by promot-
arguments in a paper at- ing anti-science in service
tempting to knock down of fossil fuel interests over
climate change as well as the American interests,”
ideas to make the work said Pennsylvania State
“more useful to a wider University climate scientist
readership.” Happer writes Michael Mann.
he had already discussed “It’s the equivalent to for-
the work with another mulating anti-terrorism
Heartland adviser, Thomas policy by consulting with
Wysmuller. groups that deny terrorism
Academic experts de- exists,” said Northeastern
nounced the administra- University’s Matthew Nis-
tion official’s continued in- bet, a professor of envi-
volvement with groups and ronmental communication

President Donald Trump speaks in the Rose Garden of the White House, Friday, June 14, 2019, in
Washington.
Associated Press
and public policy. humans and that carbon the NASA head — cop-
The National Security emissions have been de- ied in — to “systematically
Council declined to make monized like “the poor sidestep it.” Happer at the
Happer available to discuss Jews under Hitler.” Trump time was not yet a security
the emails. appointed him in late 2018 adviser, although he had
The AP and others reported to the National Security advised the Trump Environ-
earlier this year that Happer Council, which advises the mental Protection Agency
was coordinating a pro- president on security and on climate change.
posed White House panel foreign policy issues. A NASA spokesman on
to challenge the findings The emails show Happer ex- Thursday upheld the space
from scientists in and out of pressing surprise that NASA agency’s public state-
government that carbon Administrator Jim Briden- ments on climate change.
emissions are altering the stine, a former Oklahoma “We provide the data
Earth’s atmosphere and cli- congressman who once that informs policy makers
mate. questioned mainstream cli- around the world,” spokes-
President Donald Trump mate science, has come man Bob Jacobs said. “Our
in November rejected the round to accepting that science information contin-
warnings of a national cli- science. ues to be published pub-
mate change assessment A May 2018 email ex- licly as it always has.”
by more than a dozen gov- change between Heart- But at the Heartland Insti-
ernment agencies. land’s Wysmuller and Hap- tute, spokesman Jim Lakely
“I don’t believe it,” he said. per calls the NASA chief’s defended the effort, say-
Happer, a physicist who change of heart on climate ing in an email that NASA’s
previously taught at Prince- science “a puzzle.” The ex- public characterization of
ton University, has claimed change calls scientifically climate change as man-
that carbon dioxide, the established rises in sea lev- made and a global threat
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