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Happer Is Right Person to Lead Objective Federal Climate Commission

Happer Is Right Person to Lead Objective Federal Climate Commission
Attendees take a photo next to a sign of "#SR15"—referring to a special report on climate change—before the opening ceremony of the 48th session of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change in Incheon, South Korea, on Oct. 1, 2018. JUNG YEON-JE/AFP/Getty Images
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The left-wing media’s rumor mill has been rumbling in recent weeks like an upset stomach in need of an antacid at the thought that President Donald Trump will soon form a Presidential Commission on Climate Security (PCCS) to objectively examine the science behind the oft-repeated claim that humans are causing dangerous climate change.

A PCCS is long overdue, and award-winning physicist William Happer, the administration’s senior director of the National Security Council office for emerging technologies, is the perfect person to run it.

H. Sterling Burnett
H. Sterling Burnett
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Sterling Burnett, Ph.D. is a senior fellow on environmental policy at The Heartland Institute, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research center headquartered in Arlington Heights, Illinois.
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