Reviews of articles by: William Happer

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PragerU post by Happer uses flawed reasoning to claim that climate models always fail

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"climate models that attempt to predict the future temperature of the planet...don’t work. They haven’t worked in the past. They don’t work now."; "the number of factors that influence climate—the sun, the earth’s orbital properties, oceans, clouds, and, yes, industrial man—is huge and enormously variable"; "CO2 is a minor contributor to the warming of the earth"

SOURCE: William Happer, PragerU

Published: 27 Jan 2021

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CO2 caused warming during past climate changes, notably as a feedback amplifying other factors

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CO2 does not cause climate change, it RESPONDS to it [...] temperature always changes first, and CO2 follows

SOURCE: Robert W. Felix, William Happer, Ice Age Now

Published: 14 Aug 2019

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In CNN interview, William Happer incorrectly claims temperatures don’t match climate model projections

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The temperature is not rising nearly as fast as the alarmist computer models predicted. You know, it’s much, much less, factors of 2 or 3 less.

SOURCE: William Happer, CNN

Published: 25 Apr 2017

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In CNN interview, William Happer misleads about the impact of rising carbon dioxide on plant life

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there's this myth that's developed around carbon dioxide that it's a pollutant […] Carbon dioxide is a perfectly natural gas, it’s just like water vapor, it’s something that plants love.

SOURCE: William Happer, CNN

Published: 25 Apr 2017

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