William Happer

And so, you know, forming the company and getting it going and funded used up most of my time.

I didn't have time to look at climate.

But eventually, that was behind me, and I invited Dick to come give a seminar at a colloquium at Princeton, and that's really when I began to get very interested in it.

And I realized that it's just completely different from normal science.

It completely politicized, if you can't ask a question, that's a bad, bad sign.

And if you have 100% consensus determining the truth, that's an even worse sign, because...

You know, the truth in science is whether what you predict agrees with observation.

And that wasn't true of the climate science community.

You know, they would predict all these things and none of them ever happened.

And there was no consequence, you know, one failure after another.

Nothing ever happened.

The funding kept pouring in.

Well, I think speaking as a physicist, I don't know how it is in other fields.

And from Princeton, I think most of my colleagues recognize that

There's a lot of nonsense there, but they're afraid to speak up because it's bringing in enormous amounts of money.

Dick mentioned that the love of money is the root of all evil in universities.

For example, at Princeton, we have enormous new building program that's funded to a large extent from overhead from climate grants, you know.

And you're talking about, you know, not small change.

You're talking about hundreds of millions of dollars, you know, for construction.

So it's like, you know, this famous drama of this Norwegian playwright, Enemy of the People, Ibsen.