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Advocates for Action on Global Warming Chosen as Obama's Top Science Advisers

 

Published 12/19/2008 by Juliet Eilperin and Joel Achenbach at Wash Post Obama Administration

President-elect Barack Obama has selected two of the nation's most prominent scientific advocates for a vigorous response to climate change to serve in his administration's top ranks, according to sources, sending the strongest signal yet that he will reverse Bush administration policies on energy... (link)

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