Biography

William Happer, Ph.D. (Princeton): The Consequential Climate Physicist

G. Shanmugam

Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences

The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019, USA

Abstract

William Happer, born in Vellore (1939), Tamil Nadu, India is an American icon on Climate Physics. He is currently the Cyrus Fogg Brackett Professor Emeritus in the Department of Physics at Princeton University, New Jersey, USA. Amid numerous brilliant Climate Researchers, William Happer has distinguished himself as “The Consequential Climate Physicist” for the following reasons. 1. He has over 300 publications, which include (a) 18 Premier Climate Physics Articles, (b) 32 Articles, Commentaries, Interviews, Lectures, Testimonies, and Podcasts, and (c) 157 Atomic, Molecular, and Optical Physics Publications. 2. He is not only an eminent Climate Physicist, but also a great communicator, inventor, educator, motivator, historian, humorist, and public servant under two American Presidents (George H. W. Bush and Donald J. Trump). 3. His seminal climate message is simply the following. Because of the heavy saturation of the CO2 absorption-emission bands of Earth’s atmosphere, additional CO2 can only have a very small effect on climate. Even doubling of CO2 will only amount to an increase of <1○C in Temperature. 4. Importantly, William Happer’s single greatest gift to the world is his brilliant and uncanny ability to convert complex Climate-Physics knowledge into simple, easy-tounderstand, narratives and communicate them to the masses via a plethora of print and digital media relentlessly. Consequently, Climate Researchers, with alternative viewpoints to Anthropogenic Global Warming (AGW), have been successful not only in exposing the Climate Scam but also in rescuing humanity from a near extinction due to the insane Net-Zero nonsense.

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