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holdren.jpg Science magazine is reporting today that “Strong indications are that President-elect Barack Obama has picked physicist John Holdren to be the president’s science adviser.” I have known Holdren for over a decade and have discussed energy/climate issues with him many times. He ...
Sources: John Holdren to be Nominated as Obama's Science Adviser
Sources: John Holdren to be Nominated as Obama's Science Adviser
blogs.sciencemag.org — Strong indications are that President-elect Barack Obama has picked physicist John Holdren to be the president's science... adviser. A top adviser to the Obama campaign and international expert on energy and climate, Holdren would bolster Obama's team in ... (more) Sources: John Holdren to be Nominated as Obama's Science ...
John P. Holdren - Curriculum Vitae
John P. Holdren - Curriculum Vitae
whrc.org — Byers, Stephen (Co-chair), Olympia Snowe (Co-chair), Bob Carr, John P. Holdren, Martin Khor Kok-Peng, Nathalie Kosciusko-Morizet, Claude... Martin, Tony McMichael, Jonathon Porritt, Adair Turner, Ernst Ulrich von Weizs cker, Ni Weidou, Timothy E. Wirth, ... (more) John P. Holdren - Curriculum Vitae
Harvard Kennedy School - John Holdren
hks.harvard.edu — Holdren, John P., David Baltimore, James J. McCarthy, et al. "AAAS Board Statement on the Crisis in... Earth Observation from Space." American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), April 28, 2007. Holdren, John P., William K. Reilly, John ... (more) Harvard Kennedy School - John Holdren
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Elation to Confusion to Elation Again: The Obama Energy Appointments Roller-Coaster
Firedoglake — ... Rather than the White House being a core ally and supporter of Global Warming deniers and skeptics, reality-based respect for and promotion of science seems likely to be the ruling paradigm. (John Holdren reader) From Joe Romm who calls this "Obama's strongest message on climate yet". ...

Change Is Gonna Come
Obsidian Wings — ... stellar people to advise him. The science community's response to Jane Lubchenco for NOAA is particularly striking: Deep Sea News: Breaking News: Obama Appoints Totally Awesome Marine Biologist to Head NOAA! (h/t) Chris Mooney: "Like, wow." ScienceBlogs' Thoughts From Kansas: Lubchenco to NOAA! Hells yes But the response to Obama's decision to name John Holdren as his science advisor, while less colorful, is really positive. Joe Romm: "He probably has more combined expertise on both climate science ...

Joseph Romm: The Top 10 Global Warming Stories of 2008
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Obama's strongest message on climate yet: John Holdren to be named Science Adviser ...

Podesta Cautions Industry: Obama ‘Intends To Fulfill’ His ‘Promise Of Energy Transformation’
Wonk Room — ... , and White House science adviser John Holdren. These experts on climate policy will have to work with the other members of Obama’s Cabinet to achieve that “promise of energy transformation.” ...

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John Holdren to be Obama's Science Advisor
reason.com 12/19/2008 — Eli Kintisch is reporting at the ScienceInsider blog that John Holdren , who is a Professor of Environmental Policy and Director of Program in Science, Technology, and Public Policy at Havard's John F. Kennedy School of Government will be tapped as ...
Obama's Science Advisor
corner.nationalreview.com 12/19/2008 — It looks like president-elect Obama will name John P. Holdren as his science advisor. Holdren is a professor of environmental policy at Harvard and former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. As Ron Bailey points out, ...
Obama Announces Science, Technology Team in Radio Address
thepage.time.com 12/20/2008 — [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMlXNrBxM0g&w=360] The president-elect names Dr. John Holdren as an assistant and policy director and Dr. Jane Lubchenco to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Holdren, Dr. Eric Lander and Dr. Harold Varmus are also selected as ...
Replacing the Invisible ManDaily Kos
You know Hadley and Cheney, Perino and Paulson, Mukasey and Kempthorne, Gates, Card and Bolton, but do you recall the most invisible White House dweller of all... Hey, who's the White House science adviser? When's the last you heard his name? Who's so very rarely mentioned, when the White ...
John Holdren, science advisor to Obama.truthout
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JOHN TIERNEY: Does being spectacularly wrong about a major issue in your field of expertise hurt …Instapundit
JOHN TIERNEY: Does being spectacularly wrong about a major issue in your field of expertise hurt your chances of becoming the presidential science advisor? Apparently not, judging by reports from DotEarth and ScienceInsider that Barack Obama will name John P. Holdren as his science advisor ...
Harvard Kennedy School's John P. Holdren to be Named Obama's Science AdvisorDemocratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs[/b] President-elect Barack Obama is expected to announce in his radio address Saturday that he has selected Harvard's John P. Holdren to serve as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology in the new administration. The ...
Joseph Romm: Obama's Strongest Message on Climate YetPolitics on HuffingtonPost.com
Science magazine is reported Thursday that "Strong indications are that President-elect Barack Obama has picked physicist John Holdren to be the president's science adviser." I have known Holdren for over a decade and have discussed energy/climate issues with him many times. He probably ...
The "Insights" of Paul EhrlichRoss Douthat
Yuval Levin flags this footnote from a 2006 speech by Barack Obama's new science adviser, John Holdren; it's attached to a line in which Holdren references the threat that "continuing population growth" poses to human flourishing: This was the key insight in Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb ...
John Holdren as Science Advisordemocracyarsenal.org
I was thrilled to get a press release from my old stomping grounds, the Belfer Center , just moments ago, indicating that John Holdren would be Obama's Science Adviser. John Judis labels him "the Mick Jagger of Climate Change" and I'd have to agree. Within moments of meeting John ...
Obama’s ScientistsMatthew Yglesias
A couple of additional Obama appointments broke last night. One is John Holdren from Woods Hole and the dread HKS as presidential science adviser. I wrote one two three posts about a talk I heard Holdren give in Aspen back in July. He’s a very intense guy on the climate change issue ...
Hooray for Holdren!Open Left - Front Page
I remember my reaction the first time I met John Holdren: my jaw was on the floor. Once I picked it up, I wrote to a friend: I saw John Holdren speak last night on global warming. It was one of the greatest technical talks I've ever seen. Without slides or anything, he simply walked through the ...
Report: Holdren to Lead White House Science Policy44
By Joel Achenbach President-elect Obama will announce this weekend that he has selected physicist John Holdren, who has devoted much of his career to energy and environmental research, as his White House science adviser, according to a published report today. The Obama transition office would ...
Obama Ready to Pick Science AdviserTaegan Goddard's Political Wire
"Strong indications are that President-elect Barack Obama has picked physicist John Holdren to be the president's science adviser," according to Science . "Holdren had been planning to attend a staff meeting this morning with colleagues at the Belfer Center for Science and International ...
Report: Holdren as science advisorBen Smith's Blog
Science reports that John Holdren, a physicist, will be the White House Science Advisors:
Obama Names Global Warming And Zero Population Growth Alarmists To Science PostsPat Dollard | Young Americans
John Holdren’s “Zero Population Growth” background here . FOX : Obama Names Holdren, Lubchenco to Science Posts Harvard physicist John Holdren and marine biologist Jane Lubchenco will join President-elect Obama’s team. WASHINGTON — President-elect ...
Obama's Science AdviserThe Atlantic Politics Channel
Reported, naturally, by Science, is  Harvard physicist and climate change expert John Holdren. Expect an announcement this weekend.
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