William Happer

their supposed contribution to greenhouse warming.

Just a couple years ago, I was invited to come down to Paraguay by some farmers there who were worried about the upcoming climate talks in the Persian Gulf.

And the European bankers were demanding that Paraguay turn most of its ranch land back into forest, you know, to save the planet.

And otherwise, they wouldn't give loans to Paraguay.

And so the ranchers were worried that they're going to be put out of business and their families put out of business.

And so I was there for a week and I talked to the president.

And luckily, it turned out they had a very sensible president.

He didn't need me to recognize it was nonsense, but he was, I think, grateful to have someone with a science background confirm his suspicion that it was all nonsense.

So he went to the conference and basically told the bankers, you know, to go to hell, and they didn't pull the funding out of Paraguay.

So there were no consequences, and the ranchers did not suffer.

But, you know, everybody's under the gun.

Yeah, simple arithmetic.

They just can't do simple arithmetic.

Follow the rules.

But you know, Dick's point about forbidding questioning, it's just unbelievable.

When I was a young man, my first job was at Columbia, and the grand old man there was... Robbie.

Robbie, I, Robbie, and...

Robbie came from an Eastern European Jewish family, and his mother had a very poor education, but she was determined that he would get a good education.

And so he would always tell me, you know, when I would go home from school,

School every day, my mother wouldn't ask me, what did you learn today in school, Izzy?