The Crusade Against Carbon Dioxide | Professor William Happer

In September 2023, Princeton University’s Emeritus Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor of Physics, William Happer, spoke to an audience in Brisbane, Australia about the crusade against carbon dioxide and integrity in climate science.
Professor Happer is one of the world’s leading scientists and climate realists, having made extensive contributions to the debate about climate science. He has played a vital role in ensuring there is integrity in climate science and the community is exposed to information and arguments that many major institutions in our society seek to silence or censor.
The Institute of Public Affairs was proud to host Professor Happer on a tour around Australian where he spoke to audiences in Perth, Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane.
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[@gfig515]

Professor William Happer, such a great man and scientist. Humble and knowledgeable.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

And also debunked by actual climate scientists.

[@gfig515]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 what specific subject/claim was debunked? Please clarify. Thank you.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

See CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER.

[@gfig515]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 thanks, but I just watched that video and found no misinformation or falacy there. Was it just this you were referring to?

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Did you go to CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER? You'll see all of his talking points debunked there. Happer is the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which is funded by the fossil industry to promote the use of MORE gas and oil. How does Happer fool his audience? By little lies of omission, verbal sleight of hand, and employment of cherry-picked data. If you're not familiar with climate science, you'll be easily fooled because you won't know what he withholds from you. As he regales you with stories about how great CO2 is for the planet, he neglects to mention that the warming that accompanies that rising CO2 melts the icecaps, raises sea levels, intensifies hurricanes, expands wildfire seasons, and increases heatwaves, marine heatwaves, ocean acidification, droughts, extreme precipitation events, and tick-and-mosquito-borne diseases. According to Cornell University, farm productivity is actually 21% lower than it would otherwise be without global warming. Extended heatwaves decimate crops. So do extreme precipitation events. So do droughts and wildfires. He also never mentions NASA's SECOND survey of the earth, launched to determine where the actual greening was coming from. In the 1990s they assumed it must be from CO2. That second survey, however, found that the most substantial portion came not from CO2 but from the planting of billions of new trees in China, India, and the Sahel in Africa. (The Great Green Wall), along with intensive new farming practices, especially in India and China. He never mentions that sea level has risen four inches since 1992 and that the rate of rise has doubled since then, according to NASA and worldwide tide gauges. Never mentions that high tide flooding along the American south and Gulf coasts has risen 400% and 1100% respectively since the year 2000. Even New England, which is uplifting land from glacial rebound, is up 140%. It's why Houston, New York and Louisiana have a combined $100 billion in flood mitigation projects in the works. Why wouldn't he mention that? Because he's an oil industry shill, that's why. Go to the site I mentioned and you'll see so much more.

[@UKtoUSABrit]

What a brilliant man & so humble. Compare that to not-so-brilliant men, like Al Gore, that shout & wave their hands about 🤔

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Nearly everything Gore and his scientific consultants predicted have come true. Would you like to see the data?

[@SanneHoekstra]

Mr. Happer is a known semi scientist paid by the fossil industry.

[@domcizek]

WELL, WAIT AND SEE WHAT HAPPENS

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@domcizek Said the man as the tsunami aproached.

[@domcizek]

ONLY EARTHQUAKES AND VOLCANOS PRODUCE TSUNAMI'S NOT CLIMATE CHANGE @@swiftlytiltingplanet8481

[@james-qo4eb]

I wish all the politicians in the parliament would take the time to watch this lecture.

[@heinpereboom5521]

Politicians will never want to hear this, because with their rules imposed on the population, they favor the industry that earns a lot from it. They will all be able to easily get a job there after their political career, as happens in so many areas of politics. the population is there for politics and has to pay, politicians are not there for the population but almost always abuse people.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Yes, absolutely, to see exactly what fossil fuel industry misinformation looks like first-hand.

[@waywardgeologist2520]

You think they aren’t aware of his “work”?

[@heinpereboom5521]

@@waywardgeologist2520 If you don't tell me exactly what and who you mean, I can't help you.

[@johnberger5539]

Try to remember that a politician is someone who entered that 'profession' did so because he had no discernible talent for anything else. Also reflect that the two oldest professions in the world are 'politics' and 'prostitution'. To expect a politician to understand Happer's thesis is akin to explaining Einstein's theory of relativity to a retarded 2 year old: AIN'T GONNA HAPPEN!!

[@colinmartin2921]

Thank God for Professor Happer, what a great man. It amazes me how the public have fallen for the con of CO2 reduction, when they know that we cannot grow food without CO2, and in fact, levels are so low that our crop growers have to release extra in order to produce decent yields. The corruption endemic in the world now disgusts me; has anyone asked why in the UK the head of the Climate Change Committee has business interests in the green energy industry?

[@atlet1]

@@inthefieldunderthesky Happer have decent pension from his years as a top professor in physics. He don't need more. But I'm sure he could use som more money, if the oil companies would offer him. The scientific facts speek for themself though. So no company can motivate any expense to inform about them. Any scientist in physics can do that. Most of them doing it is economicaly independent though, for obvious reason.

[@atlet1]

@@inthefieldunderthesky what is IPA? You are a conspiracy theorist. What proof do you claim to have?

[@atlet1]

@@inthefieldunderthesky thank you for the information. Happer is a credible scientist and the opposite to fraud.

[@lesizmor9079]

Colin, let's go over this again--- you say that CO2 levels are down, and yields are down if the growers don't add some CO2. And your hero here, Wm. Happer, says that CO2 levels are up and that's why the crop yields are better than the past. Did you actually listen to the video?

[@atlet1]

@@lesizmor9079 False! He didn't. Do you have trouble reading written text?

[@michaelstansfield3085]

Here in WA never heard a sniff about this great gentleman’s speech in Perth in the msm. Thank you indeed Mr Happer, this should be broadcast in every school in Australia. There I go, dreaming again

[@bennyl7224]

To be fair, the MSM were pretty busy the last 2 weeks calling everyone racist

[@mrunning10]

The Australian coal companies would LOVE that now wouldn't they? (and that coal lobby Prime Minister too)

[@bennyl7224]

@@mrunning10 many countries would love higher living standards for their citizens. Coal is critical

[@mrunning10]

sure it is, so what? the 8+ billion of us on this planet are ALIVE because of fossil fuels, so what? it's still going to change the planet to the point we can't fucking GROW the fucking FOOD we need to survive. Not you, not your grandkids (ask them), but soon enough, wake the fuck UP. @@bennyl7224

[@davidonly]

I prefer legacy media or better 'fake news media' . A phrase from the great Donald J Trump and it helped me on my way to finding out how corrupt and owned the BBC / others actually are

[@andrewpearce6082]

Thank you, Professor Happer, for explaining so much, so simply and so quickly. You have truly summed up so much of what is going wrong and why. If only we could get the unenlightened fools to listen to you, it may then be possible to get to the driver before the wreck occurs.

[@Tengooda]

"You have truly summed up so much of what is going wrong and why" No, he has not. Happer makes claims that are not remotely true (i) There is no proposal to reduce CO2 to zero, i) science is not a religion, ii) no-one proposes getting rid of 7 out 8 people iv) human/animal breathing is irrelevant. And his more scientific claims (about the effect of doubling CO2) relies on a calculation that is over a century out of date and has been improved upon by numerous later studies that he does not mention,

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

See CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER. Happer is the former head of the CO2 Coalition, FUNDED BY THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY, to promote the use of MORE gas and oil. He isn't even a climate scientist. His expertise is OPTICS. You're being duped by an oil industry shill, not a legitimate climate scientist.

[@carlov-h]

You clearly have no idea. The difference between temp during ice age and temp in 1900 was 4C. We are on track to increase temp to 4C in one century rather than tens of thousands of years. If you think humans, animals and most plant life can survive such a rapid change you are living in a fantasy world.

[@andrewpearce6082]

@@carlov-h Here's some more science for you, from a man who clearly understands it better than you: kzbin.info/www/bejne/l5TcdqWCg7FqobM

[@highdesertoffgrid4225]

@@carlov-h and you clearly have no idea of the 10C rise in as little as 5 years that ushered in the Holocene.

[@mikecoote9546]

The fact that all in the room knew roughly what the CO2 concentration would be in a moderately crowded room speaks volumes about the intelligence of that audience. It would be interesting to do it in a Greens party meeting.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

Must say, I’d have estimated very much higher. But the industry accepted maximums for ordinary office space is 1000pm, and for a submarine is 5000pm.

[@heinpereboom5521]

@@sirrathersplendid4825 It depends on the size of the room and the number of people, in smaller rooms it is easily 1500 to 2000 ppm. I also thought it was over 1000ppm, but it's hard to estimate on film. It only becomes dangerous above 50,000 ppm (5%). That is almost 120 times higher than in our atmosphere.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

@@heinpereboom5521 - We all know how stuffy it gets with a lot of people holding a meeting in a small room. Our brain has a built in CO2 detector, which tells you to get some “fresh air” long before levels get dangerous.

[@heinpereboom5521]

@@sirrathersplendid4825 CO2 is odorless and we become stuffy due to the moisture and heat in rooms with many people. A lot of oxygen is also used. CO2 is not noticed by humans.

[@sirrathersplendid4825]

@@heinpereboom5521- Yes, you’re probably right. I think it’s a ‘lack of Oxygen’ detector that we have. It wakes you up, for example if your nose gets stuffed in a pillow while you sleep.

[@georgedereck6525]

What a relief! Finally at least one person in the climate debate that makes sense. Thank you Mr. Happer for what your are doing. We should start a "double the CO2" campaign. Start a CO4 movement. Double the trouble. Just throwing out some taglines.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

You do know that Happer was the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which was funded by the fossil fuel industry, right?

[@georgedereck6525]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 You are insinuating bad motives. If Happer is wrong why not say where he is wrong in his presentation? And if he is not wrong, why not some introspection? But - alas - here we have an example of the "climate debate".

[@georgedereck6525]

Forgot to add that we also have a "climate change industry". From what I have learned it is far worse, because it profits from deception.

[@rodmcintyre2813]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 So who funds academic scientists supporting AGW, whose greatest chance of research funding is singing from the same hymn book? For them to question AGW is seriously career limiting according to academics in our local university. Happer has said publicly that he has received nothing / peanuts (I've forgotten exactly what) from the fossil fuel industry. I believe him, rather than scandalous claims to the contrary. Biggest con ever swallowed by mankind. Disclosure - my investments include EV minerals, and of course fossil fuels because y'all are pushing oil prices up, yee hah!

[@debradelarue9717]

​@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481professor Plumes who wrote the book, Green Murder, fully agrees with Happer. There's no climate emergency, and there's no such thing as " fossil fuel", that's a Rockefeller phrase to give impression of scarcity.

[@australianmade2659]

Climate science is a religion. People are not allowed to question it. Especially now that there is a money grift tied to it

[@bonysminiatures3123]

climate science is so poor its childlike science

[@johnbowman6981]

Exactly, I'd rather have questions I can't answer rather than answers I can't question.

[@dougsherman1562]

Thank you Dr. Happer for a very nice presentation. It is much appreciated. Doug Sherman Physics, UC Davis

[@SanneHoekstra]

Mr. Happer is a known semi scientist paid by the fossil industry.

[@dominiquecharriere1285]

Finally, finally someone telling the truth about CO2! Spain is greener than 50 years ago, the Sahel is greener, Hong Kong is not a barren rock anymore, CO2 is not the issue, overpopulation is not the issue, the issue is our politicians and the 1% who finance them!

[@orsoncart802]

More power to Professor Happer! This talk needs pushed on the fools and criminals in governments around the world, but especially in the West where the infestation is the worst. 👍👍👍

[@RalphEllis]

CO2 is NOT the primary feedback for ice ages, as explained in my peer-review paper. In reality, the feedback agent is most probably ice-sheet dust-albedo, caused by low CO2. The first problem with ice ages is: When CO2 concentrations were high the world cooled, and when CO2 was low the world warmed. This counter-intuitive temperature response strongly suggests that CO2 is not the primary feedback agent. The second problem with ice ages is: Ice ages are forced by increased Milankovitch insolation in the Northern Hemisphere (NH), but never by increased insolation in the Southern Hemisphere. If CO2 were the primary feedback agent interglacials could and would be forced by increased insolation in either hemisphere, but they are not. The fact that interglacials are only ever NH events, strongly suggests that surface albedo is the primary feedback agent rather than CO2 (the great landmasses being in the NH). The third problem with ice ages is: During an ice age, many NH Milankovitch maxima produce little or no temperature response. Again, this would be unlikely if CO2 was the primary feedback agent, but it is to be expected if surface albedo was the primary feedback. High albedo ice sheets covered in fresh snow can and will reject the increased insolation from a NH Milankovitch maximum, resulting in little or no temperature response. Unless, of course, the ice sheets are somehow covered in dust, thus reducing their albedo. Fortuitously, the northern ice sheets do indeed get covered in dust just before each and every interglacial. This is the topic of my ice age modulation paper - the counter-intuitive method of dust production, and its function as the primary feedback agent controlling interglacial warming. The fourth problem with ice ages is: The CO2 is a very weak feedback agent indeed. During an interglacial warming era, the CO2 feedback requires warming from decade to decade, to feedback-force temperatures into the next (warmer) decade. Unfortunately the CO2 feedback is only 0.007 W/m2 per decade, which is less energy than a bee requires to fly. Conversely, reduced albedo ice sheets can absorb an extra 200 W/m2 every single annual year, when measured regionally. Clearly the albedo feedback is far stronger than the proposed CO2 feedback, and could indeed dissipate the vast northern ice sheets in about 6,000 years. All of the above points strongly suggest that ice sheet albedo is the primary feedback agent modulating interglacials, rather than CO2. Increased dust is caused by low CO2 concentrations, because CO2 is plant-food, and the most essential gas in the atmosphere. Thus low CO2concentrations cause the death of all C3 vegetation at high altitude, causing CO2 deserts to form across the Gobi plateau. Dust from these CO2 deserts formed the huge dust deposits of the Loess Plateau, and also covered the northern ice sheets in dust - which lowered the albedo of the ice sheets and precipitated melting. See peer-review paper: ModuIation of lce Ages via Dust and AIbedo. Ralph Ellis

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Happer is the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which is funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of MORE gas and oil. He is also profoundly debunked in the scientific literature.

[@orsoncart802]

@@RalphEllis Nice. Yes, all that rings a bell from your video with Tom Nelson a while back. The dust from the Gobi dessert, and why, was new to me. Excellent. Thank you! 👍👍👍

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

His paper has been debunked by Skeptical science. Just so you know. @@orsoncart802

[@michaeldautel7568]

And yet the co2 concentration went from 300 to 800 in the 45 min. this talk took in the hall?🤔

[@chrispitchford6045]

Change our school system from k to 12 to school choice. Teachers will be freer to tell the truth. Climate propaganda will be slowed and common sense will once again prevail. Stop federal grants to researchers in Academic centers, rather have them rely on private donors for their endeavors. MY hats off to Dr. W. Happer, brilliant and courageous man!

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Climate propaganda? If you believe that then you've been indoctrinated by FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY PROPAGANDA, my friend. ELEVEN studies confirm the scientific consensus on climate change. ELEVEN. Over 80 academies of science and ALL of the world's major scientific institutions, from NASA to NOAA to the World Meteorological Organization publicly endorse the consensus findings, which is why every nation on earth is a card-carrying member of the IPCC. In 2021, Cornell University audited the over 88000 climate studies published from 2012-2020 and tallied a 99.9% consensus that human activity is warming the planet. Even Exxon's own scientists in leaked memos have acknowledged that combusted fossil fuels are warming the planet to a damaging degree. THESE are the reasons children are taught about climate change in school, not because anyone has been brainwashed. By contrast, William Happer isn't even a climate scientist, has published ZERO scientific papers on climate change, and is in fact the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which is FUNDED BY THE FOSSIL FUEL INDUSTRY to promote the use of more gas and oil. You can seen Happer's talking points completely debunked here: skepticalscience.com/William_Happer_arg.htm Always fact-check your "experts" before you believe them. The tentacles of the fossil fuel industry's marketing departments reach far and wide and are frequently right under your nose.

[@iangillespie1364]

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[@Jc-ms5vv]

You’re believing the lies of big oil and gas!!

[@oldsgtdad8472]

Professor William Harper and Professor Ian Plimer with Allan Jones would be the formable team against Labor and the Greens, starting with Chris Bowen.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Happer and Plimer are shills for the fossil fuel industry and Jones is a former Rugby coach.

[@cmonkey63]

I didn't catch Professor Happer in Perth this month (due to an illness) so I am so happy to hear his presentation here. I've enjoyed every time he spoke.

[@SanneHoekstra]

This clown states we’re mostly made up of carbon. This is completely not true, we’re around 80% made up of water. It’s clear this marionette is paid by the fossil industry to proclaim lies.

[@eutectoid1]

We need a lot more people like William Happer in this world

[@antonyfendt6544]

I'd settle just for more scientists like Dr Happer :-)

[@eddewhurst7662]

You mean someone who is willing to take money from the fossil fuel industry and hide the fact. Disgraceful behaviour.

[@antonyfendt6544]

@@eddewhurst7662 I think we know who is disgraceful here ... the twat that spews the same old hateful lies perpetrated by the warmunista, bought and paid for by Soros et al. If you had any credibility you'd try and disprove what Dr Happer says, instead you attack the man with hate and lies.

[@CuriousKL]

Amen

[@lawsonspedding6136]

@@eddewhurst7662He’s quoting the science of proven eminent scientists ! He’s not pushing his own opinion, just the known science that is being ignored ! What is your problem ?

[@victorgrainger895]

This is the best video on this subject - ever. What he says also explains the (worldwide) mass hysteria concerning Covid. Trillions of dollars were made out of it and its still going on.

[@herrbonk3635]

No, that's a totally different subject... The initial "hysteria" around Covid was justified, as we didn't know the virus in any detail for the first year (late 2019 to late 2020). It would be very strange indeed not to shut down flights from countries like China, Italy, Iran, Spain, etc. where tens of thousands suddenly started to die in horribly painful ways during the first weeks and months, including a scaring number of doctors and nurses. Health authorities and governments in countries like Sweden (my home) behaved totally irresponsible during this period. Sweden also had ten times as many deaths as its neighbours.

[@SanneHoekstra]

This clown states we’re mostly made up of carbon. This is completely not true, we’re around 80% made up of water. It’s clear this marionette is paid by the fossil industry to proclaim lies.

[@RalphEllis]

CO2 is NOT the primary feedback for ice ages, as explained in my peer-review paper. In reality, the feedback agent is most probably ice-sheet dust-albedo, caused by low CO2. The first problem with ice ages is: When CO2 concentrations were high the world cooled, and when CO2 was low the world warmed. This counter-intuitive temperature response strongly suggests that CO2 is not the primary feedback agent. The second problem with ice ages is: Ice ages are forced by increased Milankovitch insolation in the Northern Hemisphere (NH), but never by increased insolation in the Southern Hemisphere. If CO2 were the primary feedback agent interglacials could and would be forced by increased insolation in either hemisphere, but they are not. The fact that interglacials are only ever NH events, strongly suggests that surface albedo is the primary feedback agent rather than CO2 (the great landmasses being in the NH). The third problem with ice ages is: During an ice age, many NH Milankovitch maxima produce little or no temperature response. Again, this would be unlikely if CO2 was the primary feedback agent, but it is to be expected if surface albedo was the primary feedback. High albedo ice sheets covered in fresh snow can and will reject the increased insolation from a NH Milankovitch maximum, resulting in little or no temperature response. Unless, of course, the ice sheets are somehow covered in dust, thus reducing their albedo. Fortuitously, the northern ice sheets do indeed get covered in dust just before each and every interglacial. This is the topic of my ice age modulation paper - the counter-intuitive method of dust production, and its function as the primary feedback agent controlling interglacial warming. The fourth problem with ice ages is: The CO2 is a very weak feedback agent indeed. During an interglacial warming era, the CO2 feedback requires warming from decade to decade, to feedback-force temperatures into the next (warmer) decade. Unfortunately the CO2 feedback is only 0.007 W/m2 per decade, which is less energy than a bee requires to fly. Conversely, reduced albedo ice sheets can absorb an extra 200 W/m2 every single annual year, when measured regionally. Clearly the albedo feedback is far stronger than the proposed CO2 feedback, and could indeed dissipate the vast northern ice sheets in about 6,000 years. All of the above points strongly suggest that ice sheet albedo is the primary feedback agent modulating interglacials, rather than CO2. Increased dust is caused by low CO2 concentrations, because CO2 is plant-food, and the most essential gas in the atmosphere. Thus low CO2concentrations cause the death of all C3 vegetation at high altitude, causing CO2 deserts to form across the Gobi plateau. Dust from these CO2 deserts formed the huge dust deposits of the Loess Plateau, and also covered the northern ice sheets in dust - which lowered the albedo of the ice sheets and precipitated melting. See peer-review paper: ModuIation of lce Ages via Dust and AIbedo. Ralph Ellis

[@dks13827]

You don't have a mortgage, I guess.

[@terenceiutzi4003]

And did you in clude all of your source data so it could be properly Peer-reviewed

[@rod-contracts1616]

​@@terenceiutzi4003"Properly" peer reviewed by who, given that the "science is settled" by a wide variety of scientific disciplines on both sides of the argument?

[@rodmcintyre2813]

And there was the January 2022 Tongan eruption, with the crater 150 m under the sea, which from rising magma at 1100 - 1470 degrees Kelvin caused a massive jet of water vapour, adding an estimated 10% to the water vapour in the stratosphere. By far the greatest greenhouse effect is from water vapour, being the vast majority of greenhouse gas (70% or more). CO2 is peanuts, man's vastly less at 4% of CO2. The tiny CO2 lasts something like 5-6 years as it is being perpetually absorbed and discharged.. Also, all the heavy rain and flash flooding globally is likely a result of climatic change from that eruption (atmospheric dust particles included) and scientists think the effects of that dust and vapour could last up to 5 years. Interesting times (situation normal).

[@terenceiutzi4003]

@@rod-contracts1616 so you are one of the fraudsters that say the source data is your intellectual property even though it was publicly funded!

[@GoArmy418]

A brilliant man and a regular guy. Quite the combination.

[@SanneHoekstra]

Mr. Happer is a known semi scientist paid by the fossil industry.

[@GoArmy418]

@@SanneHoekstra 😂🤣😅

[@Trickynickymarts]

Always make the time to listen to this man and as he says, it is up to every one of us to take back control of the future to avoid the wreck.

[@SanneHoekstra]

Mr. Happer is a known semi scientist paid by the fossil industry.

[@domcizek]

YES, ALL COAL AND OIL AND GAS MUST BE STOPPED ASAP

[@susanbcohrs2170]

Exactly, USE this valuable tool.

[@susanbcohrs2170]

​@@SanneHoekstra DR Happer, please.

[@climatecraze]

Excellent presentation by Dr. Happer. There is no climate crisis and CO2 is good for our climate.

[@tokenredhead1]

Do you have a climate science degree?

[@tgood332]

The people who blindly follow the cult of climate alarmism don't have science degrees? What is your point?@@tokenredhead1

[@bonysminiatures3123]

@@tokenredhead1 climate degree lmao stupidest science on earth keep following the lies

[@bianchaesson1441]

@@tokenredhead1 Look how many people we have in this world who have a degree but have absolutely NO common sense, they don't use the frontal lobe where we have logical thinking.

[@Saintash1964]

Doesn’t need one, common sense coupled with the ability to read, listen & learn from history will suffice.

[@endeavour356]

The 1991 Club of Rome edict finished with a statement after declaring global warming as the next threat to humanity that it doesn't matter if it is not true, it only matters that people believe it to be true !! Also, when I asked a group of fanatics why fruit growers in Spain put extra CO2 into their poly tunnels they said it was to raise the temperature in the tunnels. Heaven help us.

[@paulmahy]

The same as we used to do with tomatoes in Guernsey before the Dutch and Spain ruined the market.

[@peterwbryce]

The last Bonhoeffer slide is the most pertinent. You are a very brave scientist Will.

[@SanneHoekstra]

Mr. Happer is a known semi scientist paid by the fossil industry.

[@danasaylor2017]

A humble man that that walks the talk! I will always be grateful to Dr. Happer for helping me understand the Global Warming fallacy

[@SanneHoekstra]

This clown states we’re mostly made up of carbon. This is completely not true, we’re around 80% made up of water. It’s clear this marionette is paid by the fossil industry to proclaim lies.

[@christophe2496]

WOW, thank you so much ! We need to stop this CO2 madness

[@Jc-ms5vv]

Yes before we go extinct… just kidding nothing will stop that from happening now

[@bernardburdick9264]

This is the clearest and most direct talk on this subject that I have ever seen. Dr. Happer, you have obviously given this much thought to render it easily understood by all. Great job!

[@hosnimubarak8869]

Aw... Come on, he's an A$$clown.

[@Tengooda]

Jings, Bernard. You really are sucker for misinformation.

[@SanneHoekstra]

Mr. Happer is a known semi scientist paid by the fossil industry.

[@jaybledsoe5285]

wrong on both@@SanneHoekstra

[@frankandsteveourrats1713]

I am grateful there are wise people such as this speaking out. I am hopeful more will listen.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Happer, alas, is debunked in the scientific literature, where he has ZERO credibility when it comes to climate change. His expertise is OPTICS, not climate.

[@GordoGambler]

These clowns will then tell you it SNOWS because of GloBULL WARMING. LOL hahahahahaha Where's your optics to see the ICE is STILL THERE and GROWING. LOL

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@GordoGambler See the graphs for ice losses at NASA ICE SHEETS. Tell me what you see there, Gordo. Snow pack is also diminishing around the world, even in the Alps, even in the Himalayas. Why do you think that would be?

[@jaybledsoe5285]

ice sheet loss is bogus. depends on year it's taken and also the time of year. not a crisis, never has been @@swiftlytiltingplanet8481

[@Henrikbuitenhuis]

Thanks so much for the video and info. Remember to like and share good people.

[@henry3395]

Great and important lecture by Professor Happer. I don’t know why he uses the Crusades as a comparison. The Crusades was a delayed response to around 400 years of aggression. How that compares to the ideological climate attack on reality is not obvious.

[@Time2Go-in9ui]

Right. And where did you get TAUGHT that? If you weren't actually there, all you may be 'learning' is propaganda from that time. The original money lending guys, the Knights Templar grew to enormous power during that period and probably never went away, just out of sight. But hey, even that may be propaganda.

[@angelagonimavalero7700]

@@Time2Go-in9uiwho are you to slander a true scientist.

[@Time2Go-in9ui]

@@angelagonimavalero7700 You have no clue what I actually said, do you? My comment was regarding the use of the commentator questioning the crusades as a comparison to climate change agenda, for other reasons other than what were apparently stated in the middle ages.. E.g Modern IRAQ invasion was for oil and the world bank, not freedom. And who am I? I question EVERYONE, and gather my own opinions and 'beliefs' from a huge myriad of sources. I don't 'follow'.

[@jacquilayton2557]

@@Time2Go-in9uithe reason why the Knights Templars went was originally a just cause, but as every generation of leaders has learned war = money. Many UK MPs made a lot of money in WW2 as they had shares in German companies, but the war was still a just cause. Depending on your point of view of course.

[@SanneHoekstra]

Mr. Happer is a known semi scientist paid by the fossil industry.

[@ninjaskeleton6140]

The positive impact that CO2 has on the biosphere is undeniable and well understood. The climate catastrophists can’t refute it. We should speak about it at every opportunity. Don’t let the alarmists get away with pushing the lie that CO2 emissions are bad for the environment.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

CO2 is great for plants. But only up to a point. We've passed that point. While Happer regales you with stories about how CO2 helps crops to grow, he neglects to mention that the warming that accompanies rising CO2 cancels out those benefits. Heatwaves have tripled since the 1960s, according to the EPA. Heatwaves wither and decimate crops. At 104 degrees, all photosynthesis STOPS. Many seeds won't even germinate at that temperature. Think about places in the world like Phoenix, which saw temperatures exceeding 110 degrees for 31 straight days this summer. If you're a subsistence farmer (and there are still over a billion in the world), you could lose an entire season of crops in one fell swoop. Extreme precipitation events, which are also increasing, wash away topsoil and fertilizer and drown crops. Droughts, also increasing in duration and in intensity, dry up the soil, and not only starve plants of water, they increase wildfire risk. Wildfires are also increasing. Why wouldn't Happer go into any of this firmly established data? Happer, in fact, is debunked in the scientific literature, which you can see for yourself at "Climate Misinformation by Source: William Happer." He's not a climate scientist. He's the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which has long been funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of more gas and oil. Happer says more CO2 is a good thing and that global warming is harmless and natural. That's completely the OPPOSITE of what his own American Physical Society says, with a membership of over 50,000 physicists, in their 2021 public statement on climate change. Warming, they state, is "unequivocally" caused by human activity and it's anything but harmless. They "urge swift action" to mitigate the damage our emissions are causing. You'll find that same sentiment in the public statements about climate change made by every major scientific institution on earth, from NASA to NOAA to the World Meteorological Organization.

[@wheel-man5319]

​@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481Bonhoeffer describes you well. In that you're one of the stupid people who will not be moved from his stupidity.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@wheel-man5319 So in other words, you were unable to refute a single fact in my post. Got it.

[@wheel-man5319]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 I found no facts in your post, except that you're a supporter of a marxian movement intent on making Mao, Stalin and Hitler look like pikers, even if you added their murders all together.

[@althe]

Brilliant, not just his thinking, but his explanations.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Happer is profoundly debunked in the scientific literature, which you can see at "Climate Misinformation by Source: William Happer." Happer says more CO2 is good and global warming is natural and completely harmless, the exact OPPOSITE of what his own American Physical Society ( over 50,000 physicists) asserts in its 2021 public statetment on climate change. Their position is that global warming is "unequivocally" caused by human activity, and they urge 'swift action" to mitigate the damage our emissions are doing. Their public stance is the same as ALL (yes, ALL) of the world's major scientific institutions, from NASA to NOAA to the World Meteorological Organization.

[@House_Stark]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 Lest not forget, Happer has an unpublished paper that is in line with IPCC predictions of Co2 induced warming. I wonder why he didn't publish it? Oh, that's right, he needs to cash them fossil fuel checks. He was caught by a Greenpeace sting operation where he was willing to write an article to downplay the effects of Co2 warming as long as his fee was "donated" to the Donors Trust. A well-known fossil fuel industry cash hub that allows its recipients and donors anonymity!

[@SanneHoekstra]

This clown states we’re mostly made up of carbon. This is completely not true, we’re around 80% made up of water. It’s clear this marionette is paid by the fossil industry to proclaim lies.

[@markgrissom]

Harper and Sowell, both not long for this world. They will be missed.

[@MrMClass]

Excellent talk that lots of people need to hear.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Lots of people actually need to fact-check it. You're WAY too trusting of someone who is the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which is funded by the fossil fuel industry, and of a TV News channel owned by someone heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry.

[@SanneHoekstra]

Mr. Happer is a known semi scientist paid by the fossil industry.

[@johnduggan8656]

Just a clarification: the doubling of CO2 usually referred to is from c.1900, i.e., c.290 ppm. This of course is not usually explained in the media, similarly that 1.5 degrees is from 1850, i.e., that we have already reached 1 degree of this.

[@andrewsheehy2441]

It is an absolute joy and privilege to listen to Professor Happer. The world needs more minds like his. Bravo!

[@tonyclack5901]

The people of the world need to wake up and stop these liars.

[@GordoGambler]

@@tonyclack5901 Yup. The IPCC employs nothing but LIARS.

[@kevinoneill41]

I'm glad I got to hear an update from Mr. Dr. Happer it's always very informative. Thank you, Dr. for your dedication to your various disciplines.

[@leonharrison800]

The man is in league with the fossil.fuel companies. Another snake oil merchant. Global Boiling is real. The UN does not lie. Extinction Rebellion is 100% correct.

[@tajdvl-advocate6113]

@@tonyclack5901Yes, if it is the climate cult liars that you want to stop.

[@susanshadrake6193]

More power to Professor Happer! It did my heart good just listening to the sheer volume of common sense and actual facts that he set forth. I hope his message gets very widely broadcast - people desperately need this information to counter the climate cultists' lies.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Happer is completely debunked in the scientific literature. As a climate scientist, he has ZERO credibility.

[@GordoGambler]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 .... So says very indoctrinated LEFTY MAGGOT. LOL

[@SanneHoekstra]

Mr. Happer is a known semi scientist paid by the fossil industry.

[@jaybledsoe5285]

Feeling outnumbered are you?@@SanneHoekstra

[@SanneHoekstra]

@@jaybledsoe5285 wow, great that this has been made a highlighted reply. Congrats to you. I feel really honored that my feedback to this biased and paid by industry talk gets attention.

[@davidzoller9617]

Finally someone addresses the core of this fatale nonsense. Thanks.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Happer is FOS. So is Sky.

[@angelagonimavalero7700]

David, good comment, I follow all of those great scientists like Dr. Happer, fortunately he is not the only one, there is a group of them that are giving the battle. Also Steven Koonin, Patrick Moore, co founder of Green Peace who left the organization for going badly globalist with no scientific arguments, Judith Curry, and many others who are outstanding and are educating us and raising awareness. As a lay person, I have been learning a lot, (I never believed the climate crisis). Now I can refute better the activists and the believers of climate crisis.

[@johnberger5539]

Si is the IPCC!@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481

[@davidzoller9617]

@@angelagonimavalero7700 Yes, there are other good critics, also in German, but most of the critics argue inside the general narrative, criticizing only the actions implemented to fight climate change. The core is the CO2-nonsense, and that "a global warming would be bad" nonsense.

[@duprog]

It is not hard to understand why we have this crise about climate change caused by CO2 when you look at the politicians we have running the countries today. With politicians who are ignorant, stupid and greedy, you can't expect them to be far from lies, be it noble or political.

[@ronaldengels6168]

Bravo William Happer, please keep it up. Regards from Hulst, the Netherlands.

[@SanneHoekstra]

Mr. Happer is a known semi scientist paid by the fossil industry.

[@ronaldengels6168]

@@SanneHoekstra , Sanne you are a joke, the man is retired as I am and is like me fully finacially independant. Don`t be manipulated! By the way I fully think like him, there is a lack of CO2 in our atmosphere for efficient agricultural growth and greening of Planet Earth, there is now in 2023 only marginal enough CO2 (420 ppmv) for our survival and for our daily O2 = Oxygen needs, O2 produced by plants/agricultare/trees and fytoplakton in our oceans, consuming CO2 and H2O through fotosynthesis and as such producing the O2 = Oxygen for your surviaval. Are you sure you have better knowledge and do you really know what we are talking about, when we talk on why Planet Earth has been warming with 1.3 degrees celcius since 1830? Ever heard of the Dalton Minimum and why? And so on, and so on! Good Luck to all CO2 Global Warming believers and windmills and solarpanels believers, for sure within 20 years from now they will freeze to death, due to total lack of energy worldwide for 10 billions of people and due to the coming cooldown of Planet Earth, periods 2027-2053, 2053-2070, 2070-2230! Good Luck Sanne hope you will find ways to survive in your solarpanels/windmills/baterry/EV/H2 energy society? Regards from Hulst, The Netherlands!

[@jaybledsoe5285]

cut and paste = brainless@@SanneHoekstra

[@TheWhitehiker]

Thanks from the heart for leaving out the tedious intros for this lecture; would all the sites did that! William on the beam!

[@SanneHoekstra]

Mr. Happer is a known semi scientist paid by the fossil industry.

[@TheWhitehiker]

Sure, Sanne.@@SanneHoekstra

[@simoneerceg7116]

Please everyone sit with your children/grandchildren and watch this with them, have a reassuring discussion to help alleviate their fears and anxiety. It's not enough to say don't worry it's a load of baloney. Love to you professor for your dedication. ❤

[@Jc-ms5vv]

Keep telling yourself it’s a load of baloney when there’s no food on the shelves. That day is coming very very soon! Enjoy denial while it last

[@carlov-h]

If you have grandchildren of your own , they will not survive this century.

[@jaybledsoe5285]

yeah right. the sky is falling!!@@carlov-h

[@georgedereck6525]

KZbin is playing foul. An hour after I watched it the link disappeared from my youtube playlist. I had to go to history to find it again.

[@williamtaylor5193]

Continue to speak out. More people are beginning to realize that they've been lied to.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

They're actually not, William. Happer's profoundly debunked in the scientific literature and every scientific institution on earth disagrees with him. He's an oil industry shill, my friend, not a climate scientist, and he has duped you.

[@user-ii9vr9pz7z]

Vi behöver göra som han säger! Ta över kontrollen från de hänsynslösa som styr..

[@jomansur]

Thank you Prof Happer for daring to speak truth on this topic in such an accessible way. The idea of spending trillions to fix a non-existent problem, and create a pollution catastrophe we don't currently have is beyond words. I tell people that the biggest source of pollution from cars is actually very easy to see, especially to those who clean them - brake dust which is everywhere and not very good for your lungs.

[@SanneHoekstra]

Mr. Happer is a known semi scientist paid by the fossil industry.

[@jaybledsoe5285]

wrong@@SanneHoekstra

[@ye333]

It's because people live with so much comfort yet under so much stress.

[@stephenhampson5585]

Thank you Professor Happer.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

For misleading the public about the dangers of rising CO2?

[@Jon-bb4yd]

Many thanks for this excellent lecture.

[@SanneHoekstra]

This clown states we’re mostly made up of carbon. This is completely not true, we’re around 80% made up of water. It’s clear this marionette is paid by the fossil industry to proclaim lies.

[@AlanMuirhead]

The IPCC Third Assessment Report (2001) stated “In Climate Research and Modelling we should recognise that we are dealing with a coupled non-linear chaotic system and therefore that long-term prediction of future climate states is not possible” see page 774🤔

[@rogerphelps9939]

Climate science has developed a lot since 2001 but one thing is clear. Predictions by climate scientists have always been on the conservative side. The problem is worse than they thought.

[@stratpac]

Excellent presentation - thanks for posting.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Happer is debunked in the scientific literature, where he has ZERO credibility.

[@SanneHoekstra]

Mr. Happer is a known semi scientist paid by the fossil industry.

[@kenwoodburn7438]

Carbon and oxygen make up around 90% of plant dry matter. It stands to reason therefore that CO2 is the most important primary plant nutrient.

[@ricoman7981]

Dandelions must love CO2 because I’ve had way more dandelions in my yard the past several years than long ago when I bought my property!

[@geraldkaupp5380]

Best talk I have ever heard! Thank you Doctor for your courage and steadfast belief in the truth. I shall redouble my efforts to turn even a few of the herd. Cheers from Sunny Alberta!

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

See CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER, for a complete dismantling of his talking points by Skeptical Science. Not a single scientific institution on earth agrees with Happer's view that "more CO2 is good for civilization" or that today's climate change is "natural" and "harmless."

[@robbomax1143]

Gerald, If you are tempted to engage in discussion with swiftly... then, before you do, I suggest you change comments to newest first and and take a look through the threads that have replies.

[@JoseSilveira-newhandleforYT]

Brilliant! This video should have billions of views, so everybody on Earth could understand the criminal way we are being deceived, particularly, the children.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

See CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER, at the Skeptical Science website. Not a single scientific institution on the planet agrees with Happer that more CO2 would be good for us or that today's climate change is "natural and harmless." Even his own American Physical Society with its over 50,000 physicist members disagrees. Go to their website and check out their 2021 position statement on climate change, in which they're "urging swift action" to mitigate the damage we're causing. Happer is the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which has long been funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of more gas and oil.

[@yetty4032]

Thank you for sharing knowledge and explaining in very simple way🙏 ❤

[@SanneHoekstra]

Mr. Happer is a known semi scientist paid by the fossil industry.

[@TheTigerDog74]

He comes at this from a very detailed scientific approach that obliterates the notion that there is a climate “crisis”. But you don’t have to be a scientist to understand how badly the warming effects of CO2 have been blown out of proportion to reality. When you boil it all down, this is an extremely complex heat transfer problem with many other facets affecting temperature other than just carbon containing components. Simply put, there is not enough CO2 to warrant calling it a crisis. If you could somehow condense the entire volume of the earth’s atmosphere down to one gallon, there would only be a tad less than a 1/3 of a teaspoon of CO2 in that gallon. That’s what 400 ppm represents and apparently a lot of people have trouble grasping how small that concentration level really is. Around 200 years ago, the amount in that gallon would have been a tad less than a 1/4 of a teaspoon so there’s no denying it has increased. CO2 though, is for all practical purposes a trace component in the atmosphere and common sense should tell anyone that a trace atmospheric component will never have anything more than a trace effect on atmospheric temperatures.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Happer is not only fully debunked in the scientific literature, his message of "harmless and natural CO2 " is completely the OPPOSITE of the view of his own American Physical Society, with a membership of over 50,000 physicists. Their 2021 public statement on climate change blames human activity "unequivocally" for global warming and "urges swift action" to mitigate the damage our emissions are causing.

[@stevecowham1017]

825 ppm, not bad when you are ingesting 0.045%, 450ppm and exhaling 4.0%.

[@mikecoote9546]

I would challenge anyone who watches this in good faith to continue with there superstitious CO2 fixation. Its the first time I have heard of his laser beam star wars stuff. what an awesome intellect.

[@MrFryfish]

He just show us the truth but how many will spread!? I will be for sure one of them! I always disbelieve the "reality" presented, hence a BIG THANK YOU for confirming that I was right! Long live Professor William Happer!

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Not a single scientific institution on earth supports Happer's belief that more CO2 is better for civilization. NONE. NADA. ZILCH. Happer isn't a climate scientist. He's published no scientific papers on the subject because this isn't his field. His expertise is OPTICS. He's also the former director of the CO2 Coalition, which has long been funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of more gas and oil.

[@highdesertoffgrid4225]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 He's a physicist. Remove 90% of his brain mass and intelligence and you have a climate scientist. Remove 90% of that and there's you.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@highdesertoffgrid4225 See "Climate Misinformation by Source: William Happer," and see how easily you were duped.

[@skanthaadsigns]

Real Solid Science… Than You Sir

[@416dl]

Always fascinating to listen to Dr Happer; and I've done so a few times for which we thank the IPA and other orgs that sponsor him. I think about how much more impact his insights would have if only Joe Rogan would have Dr Happer as a guest to explain the actual science and reveal the inner workings of the policy decision process that is currently calling for the kind of change that threatens us far more than a few percentages of CO2. Let's hope the word gets out soon Cheers.

[@mrunning10]

Yah! Would really like to fucking SEE some fucking SCIENCE from Happer for once

[@Cooliemasteroz]

@@mrunning10what the fuck are you talking about, he’s far more qualified to talk about the effects of CO2 than any climate scientist.

[@SanneHoekstra]

Mr. Happer is a known semi scientist paid by the fossil industry.

[@mrunning10]

Spot On. @@SanneHoekstra

[@sponemspoonfilmseditor8418]

Totalement en accord ! Claude Sponem, French, professeur de physique.

[@rosebronikowski2022]

Never understood why the so called smart scientists saying that there was too much CO2, why they wouldn't just have decided to plant more trees and crops since plants gobble that stuff up.

[@hosnimubarak8869]

Search for "Canada 2 Billion Trees Program".

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

China has planted over 66 billion trees in the last 30 years. India has planted nearly that many. Billions more have been planted in the Great Green Wall project across Africa, to stop the spread of the Sahara Desert. But little known among the public is that a newly-planted tree actually gives off more CO2 in its first 20 years than it absorbs, according to Oregon State University. Just digging a hole to plant a tree releases CO2 from the organisms in the soil. The tree roots themselves respire and release CO2. Most people are unaware that it's the OLD-GROWTH forests that do the absorbing. That's why a good strategy is to allow old growth forests to continue to grow rather than to cut them down for harvesting. We also need to keep in mind that forest fires release masses of CO2 into the atmosphere. Canada's burn acreage has doubled since the 1970s and the western U.S. has seen its burn acreage TRIPLE. Harvested trees for paper and other products also end up returning CO2 to the atmosphere when those products are incinerated. About 80% of forest products are SHORT-TERM products, with 65% returning their CO2 back into the atmosphere within 30 years, according to the data. Global warming also causes trees to release more CO2. Plants exhale CO2 at night but when stressed by heat, they release even more. It's not nearly as simple as we'd all like to believe.

[@billharris3887]

Thank you so much!

[@SteveGarai]

Great presentation!

[@R0d_1984]

Knew about this good man, years ago, pity i missed the, though i Live in QLD...

[@MrNomyar]

'7 out of 8 of us need to go' Realisticly WE all have to go, especially when we keep asking questions

[@duinteriors]

This is all so clear!….what a breath of fresh air!

[@SanneHoekstra]

Mr. Happer is a known semi scientist paid by the fossil industry.

[@duinteriors]

@@SanneHoekstra Semi-scientist?…what BS! 😂😂😂😂

[@jaybledsoe5285]

wrong@@SanneHoekstra

[@joyfulexistence6538]

Love you Dr Happer

[@charlesg7937]

It's refreshing to hear truth being told.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

See CLIMATE MISINFORMATION BY SOURCE: WILLIAM HAPPER for a reality check.

[@robertchapman6795]

I’ll give you integrity in climate science; I’ve been on earth for over 50 years and watched the climate change with my own eyes. From summer to autumn to winter to spring. This happens every year without fail. I’m sure people older than me must have noticed the changes! It’s like a rotation of different high and low temperatures for a few months at a time. This brings with it varying rates of precipitation. Sometimes icy and sometimes warm, sometimes heavy, sometimes light. Sometimes the sun sort of falls north and sometimes south. I’ve noticed this seems to align with temperature variations and either longer or shorter daylight hours!

[@karlwheatley1244]

Enough with trying to downplay what is happening: Humans are warming the planet 10-20 times faster than it usually warms when coming out of an ice age and that is already causing hundreds of harmful ripple effects for people and the millions of other species in our wonderful Earth family. These include intensifying climate disasters, disrupted seasons, disrupted industries (fishing, ski industry), disrupted habitats (one study found that half the species on Earth are migrating to cooler places), and accelerating global ice melt, and global sea level rise. Oh yeah, and we've made the oceans 30% "more acidic" and decreased their oxygen levels, and their current are slowing, and human activity has already killed off half the coral reefs that existed in the 1950s.

[@jochenehmen6108]

@@karlwheatley1244 Even if it is warming 10-20 times faster ... the human impact is certainly not zero - we live here, we do use and change our invironment. But that there is a immanent crisis because of the human part of the change that is always occuring is just fear talking through you. It can't be substantiated in the real sense of the word. Chill! ;)

[@karlwheatley1244]

@@jochenehmen6108 "the human impact is certainly not zero - we live here, we do use and change our invironment." NO, the science is very clear that WE caused virtually all recent global warming. "But that there is a immanent crisis because of the human part of the change that is always occuring is just fear talking through you." NO, I'm a university researcher who has spent some 20,000 hours of my life studying why the web of life is unraveling and what we must do to prevent too much worsening breakdown of ecosystems and societies. The facts came first, but all scientists who have a big-picture understanding of what we are doing to the climate and ecosystems our lives and societies depend on is somewhere on the scale from scared to terrified.

[@antonyfendt6544]

Yesterday mid-morning, I drove 40km from my Brisbane inner suburb to an outer northern suburb ... the temperature dropped 2C over that trip, high density development to low density.

[@edwinhermanson8842]

This guy is awesome

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

He is debunked in the scientific literature and his views are rejected by the American Physical Society, with a membership of over 50,000 physicists like Happer. Always seek rebuttals before believing anyone on the internet.

[@iandavies7458]

I was looking on Google for atmospheric carbon carbon dioxide and found now that they are not talking about parts per million, but parts per million by volume - which is a much bigger number 420 ppm look puny, but 5600ppmv look far more impressive.

[@jean-micheldupont1150]

Wow, I thought that the PPM values were already a dishonest way of representing 0.04% but it looks like they found a new way of ramping up the fearporn propaganda

[@anderslvolljohansen1556]

420ppm CO2 is by molecule fraction, which is essentially the same as volume fraction in our atmosphere. 420 molecules out of 1,000,000 molecules in dry air is CO2.

[@zytigon]

Whatever the question is nuclear power stations are the answer. It is possible to make synthetic petrol using the power from nuclear power stations. However if everyone rushed to nuclear power there might be supply issues

[@wheel-man5319]

Have you noticed how vigorously those who believe the climate change narrative oppose nuclear power?

[@blackimp4987]

I love this man. His tranquil way of exposing and delicate irony with his bright mind are a pleasure to listen to. We miss so much real scientific thinking that's been replaced with disgusting propaganda made by transactional scams that leverage on emotional exposure of spared facts and the need of believers to be part of a great collectivist mission for redemption.

[@Tengooda]

The person providing "disgusting propaganda" in this case is William Happer. You have been duped.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Even Happer's own American Physicial Society (over 50,000 physicists) reject his views and urge "swift action" against the damage we're causing with our emissions. Happer's completely debunked in the scientific literature and is, in fact, the former head of the CO2 Coalition, which has long been funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of more gas and oil.

[@hosnimubarak8869]

In December 2015, Happer was targeted in a sting operation by the environmental activist group Greenpeace. Posing as consultants for a Middle Eastern oil and gas company, they asked Happer to write a report touting the benefits of rising carbon emissions. Happer asked for the fee from this work to be donated to the "objective evidence" climate-change organization CO2 Coalition, which suggested that he contact the Donors Trust to keep the source of the funds secret. Happer further acknowledged that his report would probably not pass peer-review with a scientific journal.

[@angelagonimavalero7700]

Green Peace is formed by a bunch of fanatic activists not scientists, globalists who act about bad politics and ideologists. Refer to Patrick Moore, the co founder of Green Peace, and the only one with scientific background of this group, who left the organization for the same reason that they were hacked by activists who followed the globalists and not the real science or the serious scientists, or any kind of scientific studies. That is one of the problem, that ignorance is bliss and people follow activists and world organizations that promote world order, not true scientists. So Green Peace is rubbish and not an organization with noble means.

[@waywardgeologist2520]

I read that to. The man uses his appeal to authority to act like he’s an authority on climate. It’s a case of Dunning Krugman, unfortunately most of the public will believe what he says because of his titles. I do wish it was require that people disclose their funding sources while making a public speech.

[@robertcarruthers1783]

Fear of the truth by a totally discredited organisation. Their own founder has discredited Greenpeace on numerous occasions. Don't buy into the fear. That's what religions are built on.

[@thefleecer3673]

In that pathetic sting operation Happer proved himself genuine. He never suggested anything underhanded. He just pointed out the same thing he does in his lectures, that the "peer review" process is hopelessly corrupted. If you want underhanded you needn't go any further than Climategate

[@johnberger5539]

Presumably you'd make the same demand of the IPCC.@@waywardgeologist2520

[@tommcauley6938]

His presentation makes the KZbin ‘Context’ comment about climate change look absolutely absurd.

[@odette8905]

Thank you Prof Happer. Much appreciated.

[@karlwheatley1244]

Unfortunately, this video was a master class in climate misinformation.

[@odette8905]

​@@karlwheatley1244Perhaps you could explain why?

[@karlwheatley1244]

@@odette8905 "Perhaps you could explain why?" I probably won't have enough time to dissect the whole thing, but scroll down to 10 days ago in the comments, look for @mervynsullivam, and my last 3 or 4 posts in that thread dissect and de-construct in detail the misinformation in the first 7 minutes of this video, with time stamps. And NO, he's not a real climate scientist, and when he gets to that graph where he's making a big deal about a doubling of CO2 leading to only a 1% reduction in heat getting to space at that one wavelength band for CO2, he "conveniently" leaves out four other ways raising CO2 levels is known to warm the planet: 1) increasing global water vapor levels and keeping them higher, 2) increasing global methane levels (due to the direct warming due to CO2 melting global ice), 3) lowering albedo due to melting global ice, thus increasing the amount of light energy from the sun that gets transformed into heat energy, and 4) further increasing levels of CO2, water vapor, and methane due to the warming caused by the above 3 mechanisms. Pretty weird that someone who claims to know about climate would leave out those known effects of raising global CO2 levels, don't you think? But then again, letting his audience in on those facts would spoil the illusion he is trying to create. I hope that helps.

[@GordoGambler]

@@odette8905 Don't listen to the kooks. Tony Heller can prove their data FRAUD in minutes. The map showing temps from 1934 compared to the FAKE hottest year ever is hilarious. near every state had a hottest day 10F hotter than this year. It was 118F in Missouri. LOL.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@GordoGambler Tony Heller videos: 'PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC QUACKERY"---MediaBias/FactCheck. Heller preys on lay people untrained in climate science because they're so easily fooled. He fools no one who actually works in the field.

[@colintilcock3320]

Another great man obviously very learned and talking sense

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

He's actually profoundly debunked in the scientific literature but nobody on these forums ever bothers to check.

[@doctordapp]

On which point can you debunk this story? None, it's factually correct.

[@sarahdowe3142]

Brilliant Professor Happer, i love plants and trees, the elites should be promoting that, as for solar farms and wind turbines, they are ugly, not recyclable and we should modenise with Small Nuclear Reactors that can easily to connect to the existing grid instead of transmission lines over good agri land. Ive learned a lot and not worry about what the UN says about 'global boiling' I rather the wisdom of the great German scientists of the last century. Please avtivists and alarmists plant more trees, plants and food. Thank you for your wisdom Professor Happer and I hope your wife is OK. And thanks to the IPA for inviting this man of wisdom

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Solar panels and wind turbines are 95% recycleable. According to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists and the Union of Concerned Scientists, the new, advanced nuclear reactors are no safer than the old.

[@richardpeychers4076]

China is going all-out to regreen their deserts by tree planting on a vast scale and to all purposes are very successful.

[@rogerphelps9939]

Small nuclear reactors are no panacea. At current projections their output will be more expensive than that from large nuclear power stations with a much greater potential for accidents and renewables are far cheaper.

[@jeffreyjohnsen3706]

WE MUST GET THE TRUTH OUT.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

The truth is found in the ELEVEN separate studies that confirm the scientific consensus on climate change, not in the words of oil industry shill, William Happer.

[@TheTonycima]

I agree. This bloke is talking bullshit funded by big oil and tobacco companies.

[@malawby]

The confusion over the cause of earth’s temperature is in large part due to the historical omittance of atmospheric pressure as a source of continuous heat.

[@jaytea42]

Brilliant man & clear scientific thinking!

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

He is completely debunked in the scientific literature.

[@stephencoleman2414]

What a great man

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

A great man who takes money from the fossil fuel industry and lies to you.

[@jaybledsoe5285]

garbage reply as usual@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481

[@anotherlover6954]

7:18"It would be an insult to be called a climate scientist." Hear, hear!

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Of course Happer says that, because he has been debunked by the scientific consensus on climate change by CLIMATE SCIENTISTS who know far more than he does. Happer's expertise is OPTICS, not climate, and he's been profoundly debunked in the scientific literature. Not a single scientific institution in the world agrees with his view that climate change today is "natural" and "harmless." None. Nada. Zilch. Even his own American Physical Society, with its over 50,000 physicist members reject that view. Happer is the former director of the CO2 Coalition, which has long been funded by the fossil fuel industry to promote the use of more gas and oil. He has duped you, my friend.

[@robbomax1143]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 You claim that Happer "has been debunked by the scientific consensus on climate change". This is a very vague claim so can you please provide the following clarification: 1. What, precisely, that Happer says in this presentation has been debunked by the scientific consensus (which you refer to)? 2. When exactly did such scientific consensus debunk what Happer says in this presentation? 3. What, precisely do you mean by "scientific consensus" and what evidence do you rely upon for there being such a purported consensus? 4. Please explain how you consider "consensus" fits in with (1) fundamental scientific principles; and (2) the scientific method?

[@wheel-man5319]

​@@robbomax1143science (at least when I was a youngster) doesn't work by consensus. Indeed if you have a consensus you may well have stopped having science!

[@rayw3294]

Thank You Prof Will Happer and IPA. I was thinking how to explain CO2 and its effect. How about on a RADAR screen but not pinging microwaves off metal. But measuring frequency/wavelengths and what effects on temperature. A round screen. It goes around and around and CO2 hits a line. That line (very thin line in the entire bandwidth). Add more CO2 and it basically is in that bandwidth, that line. The vast majority is H2O. Your thoughts?

[@justathought1444]

This guy is so clever, he is so grounded

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

And debunked.

[@SuperChicken666]

From perusing the comments, it seems that those who would disagree with the conclusions of this speech have nothing to say. More probably, very few climate warriors will even watch anything that contradicts their worldview.

[@karlwheatley1244]

"From perusing the comments, it seems that those who would disagree with the conclusions of this speech have nothing to say." You must not have "perused" far enough because planetwiftlytilting debunked his comments quite thoroughly further on. Speaking as a university researcher who has studied for more than a decade the crises we face and why people are confused about them, what Happer has to say is blatant disinformation. Rapidly increasing global CO2 levels is already causing hundreds of harmful effects for people and the planet, including a "global browning" that is causing the great forests of the world to dry out, die, and burn faster than usual. I've watched and debunked multiple of his videos as well as those from other paid deniers/skeptics, including Patrick Moore, Willie Soon, and Tony Heller. Happer and the others are conning people by pulling together a few isolated facts and not telling people the whole story.

[@jochenehmen6108]

@@karlwheatley1244 _... what Happer has to say is blatant disinformation._ So: how and where and why is he wrong with his analysis of the temperature increasing effect of CO₂ - based upon the Stefan-Boltzmann law/equation? _what Happer has to say is blatant disinformation._ is it now? ;) Please elaborate!

[@karlwheatley1244]

@@jochenehmen6108 "what Happer has to say is blatant disinformation. is it now? ;) Please elaborate!" I already elaborated on that, on the thread above this one.

[@johanponken]

36:28 "Nobel lies". As a Swede I take offense. :) _noble_

[@orsoncart802]

Pssst! It wasn’t a mistake - Al Gore. 😁

[@angelagonimavalero7700]

Do not take personal offense, Al Gore is a fraud and it won the Nobel Prize. Unfortunately, the Nobel Peace Prize is becoming a joke and I am sure that they will be more careful about who they give it to. There are already several bad Peace Nobel Prizes.

[@RetroFab]

Are the slides used available to the public?

[@Vidar2032]

Why is CO2 we exhale an argument? That CO2 is a result of the carbon in the food we eat - ultimately from photosynthesis which ofcourse takes up the CO2 we exhale - unlesss he assume all of us drinks gasoline and eats brown coal.

[@wheel-man5319]

Because you are the carbon they intend to eliminate.

[@johncoope5971]

Thank goodness for common sense

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Happer's views are completely out of step with his own American Physical Society and ALL (yes, ALL) major scientific institutions around the world, from NASA to NOAA to the World Meteorological Organization.

[@Hickalum]

A panel of international climate scientists recently said exactly what they were paid to say.

[@Tengooda]

Contributors to the IPCC are not paid.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

They're not even paid. It's all volunteer work. Spreading bullshit like this helps no one.

[@Hickalum]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 ; You can check out the terms of reference for the IPCC … They are public domain … And they totally prohibit any heterodox opinion or counter narrative to that which declares anthropogenic climate change will kill us all (though they never actually say how). No other narrative from the IPCC is permitted … But if that’s what you want to hear … enjoy.

[@grindupBaker]

@@Hickalum So faced with having been caught in a silly lie you apologized and admitted your error. Oh, no wait, my bad, you didn't do that, you ... changed the subject. I'm stunned because that's so unusual for the members of your Army of Reeking Couldn't-care-less Filth.

[@bonysminiatures3123]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 you have lost quit will you can

[@suz4keeps]

Thanks for this

[@user-ii1iy8fz1d]

Mmmmm... Ipa. ❤ Geat presentation too.

[@normangoldstuck8107]

I like to ask climate advocates how many valency electrons does carbon have and what is the importance of this. Strangely those who view carbon as a poison don't know much about this.

[@JohnChampagne]

Does this organization, does William Happer, have an opinion about whether additional fossil carbon in the air translates into more CO₂ dissolved into the oceans? Does more CO₂ in the oceans translate to more H₂CO₃ (carbonic acid) formation? The pH of ocean water has been falling over the past decades, apparently because we have moved carbon from the ground to the air. How low can pH of seawater go before we put marine ecosystems at risk? Who are the marine biologists that you trust on this question? If Happer always thought CO₂ was not significant, was that because he believes it is not relatively opaque to IR radiation? Or was it due to some other reason? If doubling CO₂ means 1% shift in the thermal energy balance of the climate system, that would be about 13 watts per sq. meter. Add up the square meters of direct sunlight hitting Earth to find how rapidly the Earth receives thermal energy. If we lose 1% of the dissipative effect, that will produce overall warming. If you put 1% more weight on one side of a balance scale, compared to the other side, it will show a noticeable tilt. Why is Happer calling 1% a small difference. It has a cumulative effect. Can we agree, as a matter of public policy, that we should not allow more emission of pollutants or faster depletion of resources or more destruction of habitat than what most people think is acceptable? A democratic society would set the will of the people as the proper criterion. A policy that sets impacts on the environment will produce a moderate result, neither extremely constricting nor extremely permissive. Plants grow faster with more CO₂. They don't make nutrition and flavor faster. They make roughage faster. When plants open their pores to let more CO₂ in, they are damaged more by oxygen. The efforts to prevent and repair this damage means more production of antioxidants. These are nutrients we need. If you want to say that more CO₂ will be a benefit because plants grow more rapidly, can you say why you think we should be unconcerned about the lower nutritional value of the food we eat that we can expect with higher CO₂ concentrations?

[@kevint1910]

climate science and integrity are mutually exclusive goals.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

Cite your evidence of cheating anywhere in climate science. I'd love to see it.

[@GordoGambler]

@@swiftlytiltingplanet8481 Tony Heller, ANY of his videos.

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

@@GordoGambler LOL. Tony Heller videos: 'PSEUDOSCIENTIFIC QUACKERY"----MediaBias/FactCheck Heller effectively fools the unschooled by juxtaposing legitimate graphs and news stories alongside little lies of omission, debunked or cherry-picked data, and verbal sleight of hand. Viewers haven't a clue how they're being deceived. The only way to see through his nonsense is to know the data inside and out, which most lay people do not.

[@keithmoore8585]

We should double the amount of prof happer😅

[@swiftlytiltingplanet8481]

And double the amount of misinformation? No thanks.