Clauser is a very well-known quantum physicist. His webpage at
Home | clauser shows publications on Quantum Mechanics and Atomic and X-Ray Interferometry. It shows NONE on climate issues. Another page on his website list his commentaries which all concern quantum mechanics. None concern climate issues. I could not find a single word on his website on climate science or climate issues (or the WEF or the moneyed elite N/A was villainizing).
It appears that Clauser was recruited by Dr William Happer to join the board of directors of the CO2 Coalition. A link in the News Addicts page (link in the thread OP) led to the CO2 Coalition website's announcement of Clauser joining their board. It appears he submitted a comment to the CO2 Coalition which News Addicts quoted in bits and pieces, adding text to give the impression that Clauser was blaming the WEF for peddling global warming in some sort of scam. Unfortunately, as far as can be told, Clauser never said a single word about the WEF. Here is the full Clauser quote from CO2 Coalition. All of the several short quotes in the N/A article come from this paragraph.
“The popular narrative about climate change reflects a dangerous corruption of science that threatens the world’s economy and the well-being of billions of people. Misguided climate science has metastasized into massive shock-journalistic pseudoscience. In turn, the pseudoscience has become a scapegoat for a wide variety of other unrelated ills. It has been promoted and extended by similarly misguided business marketing agents, politicians, journalists, government agencies, and environmentalists. In my opinion, there is no real climate crisis. There is, however, a very real problem with providing a decent standard of living to the world’s large population and an associated energy crisis. The latter is being unnecessarily exacerbated by what, in my opinion, is incorrect climate science.”
Dr Happer welcomed Clauser aboard with the following:
“Dr. Clauser will add tremendously to the intellectual depth of our organization, which already benefits from a membership of more than 120 scientists and researchers representing a broad range of disciplines. His studies of the science of climate provide strong evidence that there is no climate crisis and that increasing CO2 concentrations will benefit the world,” said Dr. William Happer, chair of the board of the CO2 Coalition.
Unfortunately, at least as noted on Clauser's personal website, he has conducted no studies in the field of climate science whatsoever.
That some of you (the OP, Flash) think this qualifies as a member of the climate science community confessing to the secret conspiracy to defraud the planet for research grants is simply a measure of your desperation. You have no such thing here.
Here is Wikipedia's description of CO2 Coalition.
The
CO2 Coalition is a nonprofit advocacy organization in the United States founded in 2015. Its claims conflict with the
scientific consensus on climate change and it spreads
misinformation about climate change.
History
The CO2 Coalition is a successor to the
George C. Marshall Institute, a think tank focusing on defense and climate issues which closed in 2015. William O'Keefe, a chief executive officer of the Marshall Institute and former CEO of the
American Petroleum Institute, continued as CEO of the CO2 Coalition.
William Happer, an emeritus professor of physics known for disagreeing with the consensus on climate change, was another CO2 Coalition founder from the Marshall Institute. Happer said the association with climate contrarianism had negatively affected Marshall Institute funding, viz: "Many foundations that would normally have supported defense would not do it because of the Marshall name being associated with climate". The defense activities of the Marshall Institute were moved to the
Center for Strategic and International Studies.
In its first four years, the CO2 Coalition received over $1 million in contributions from foundations that support conservative cause and from energy industry officials.