William Happer

You know, we work for Senator Gore.

We don't work for you anymore.

And so I would tell him, well, OK, let him pay for your next year's research.

I can find other people who will come and talk to me who would be glad to take my money.

Oh, yes.

Very long when he was a senator before he was vice president.

That's right.

Well, I mentioned my stay at the Department of Energy, and that's what really sucked me into it.

I had never paid much attention to climate science before, but I was spending a lot of money, the taxpayers' money on it, and so I thought I ought to learn a little bit about it.

I already mentioned that most of the climate scientists did not appreciate my questioning.

They were very strange because almost any other science, when they got a call from Washington, come in and tell us what you're doing, they were just delighted to come and make a case about how important their work was.

But the climate scientists were completely different.

Yeah, they had to because I threatened to cut off their funding if they didn't come.

And so they would come, you know, and be very sullen and they wouldn't answer questions.

And, you know, you can't have a seminar without asking questions.

That's how you learn.

Well, that's right.

Well, you know, I was working for President Bush Sr.

and when Carter and Gore won the election …

Gore couldn't wait to fire me at the behest of all of his protégés.