Al Gore: “Science Will Not Intrude On Public Policy”

When President Bush was accused (erroneously, as it turned out) of trying to silence a global warming alarmist working at NASA the media was all over it.
Now comes news that Dr. Happer, a noted physicist, author of over 200 scientific papers and a past director of energy research at the Department of Energy was told by Al Gore after testimony against global warming alarmism in Congress that “science will not intrude on public policy.”
Now Dr. Happer is part of a 650-strong contingent of noted climate experts who are joining forces to oppose global warming hype. Think Dr. Happer and his colleagues will get the same level of coverage from the media?
Don’t hold your breath.

Noted energy expert and Princeton physicist Dr. Will Happer has sharply criticized global warming alarmism. Happer, author of over 200 scientific papers and a past director of energy research at the Department of Energy, called fears over global warming “mistaken”.
“I have spent a long research career studying physics that is closely related to the greenhouse effect”, said Happer. “Fears about man-made global warming are unwarranted and are not based on good science.”
Dr. Happer views climate change as a predominately natural process. “The earth’s climate is changing now, as it always has. There is no evidence that the changes differ in any qualitative way from those of the past.”
In 1991, Happer was appointed director of energy research for the US Department of Energy. In 1993, he testified before Congress that the scientific data didn’t support widespread fears about the dangers of the ozone hole and global warming, remarks that caused then-Vice President Al Gore to fire him. “I was told that science was not going to intrude on public policy”, he said. “I did not need the job that badly”.
Happer’s latest remarks were made yesterday, as he asked to be included in a Senate Environment and Public Works report of scientists disputing global warming alarmism. Happer joins 650 other scientists on the list, many of whom have been interviewed previously by DailyTech.
“Computer models used to generate frightening scenarios from increasing levels of carbon dioxide have scant credibility,” Happer concluded.
In response to Happer’s remarks, Senator James Inhofe, ranking minority member of the Environment and Public Works Committee, said, “The endless claims of a consensus on man-made global warming grow less and less credible every day”.

That Al Gore would care more about global warming policy than global warming science is evidence from the way, throughout his career, he’s favored only science that supports his pre-conceived notions about climate change. Which means that Al Gore (and a lot of his supporters by extension) care less about the actual problems climate change might present and more about using climate change as a means to their own ends. Which are enriching themselves and expanding their own power and influence.
It’s not a crisis, it’s a racket created by racketeers like Gore for their own purposes.