Climate Denier to Head New Trump Panel Despite Once Comparing Climate Scientists to Nazis

The White House is reportedly organizing a new committee to examine whether climate change poses a threat to national security, to be led by notorious climate change denier, Princeton University professor emeritus William Happer. Observers say his involvement in the "Presidential Committee on Climate Security" indicates the Trump administration wants to undermine findings within the national security community that climate change poses a severe threat to human safety. William Happer is a National Security Council senior director who has long claimed increasing the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will actually benefit humans. He has compared the fight against climate change to the Holocaust, saying, "The demonization of carbon dioxide is just like the demonization of the poor Jews under Hitler." We speak with journalist David Wallace-Wells, deputy editor and climate columnist for New York magazine. His new book is titled "The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming."