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hks.harvard.edu - 12/19/2008
Harvard Kennedy School - John Holdren
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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 Rowe, Jason Grumet, Marika Tatsutani, et al. ...
John P. Holdren - Curriculum Vitae
whrc.org - 12/18/2008
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

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talkingpointsmemo.com - 12/22/2008
Major Error in Judgment
— talkingpointsmemo.com — I first noticed this on Atrios's blog. Jennifer Palmieri, who's acting CEO of the Center for American... Progress while John Podesta is working on the transition, did a forcible 'guest post' on Matt Yglesias's blog, which is now hosted at CAP, ... (more) Major Error in Judgment

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Blog Archive » Obama’s strongest message on climate yet: John Holdren to be named Science Adviser
climateprogress.org - 12/20/2008
Blog Archive » Obama’s strongest message on climate yet: John Holdren to be ...
— climateprogress.org — 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 ... (more) Blog Archive » Obama’s strongest message ...

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Matthew Yglesias:  Obama’s Scientists

Politics on HuffingtonPost.com:  Joseph Romm: Obama's Strongest Message on Climate Yet

Articles on National Review Online:  Adler: Obamas Political Science Adviser

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Obama’s Scientists
Matthew 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 as well as being a very accomplished scientist. Meanwhile Jane Lubchenco will head up the National Oceanographic and Marine Administration. NOAA is best known to me as the government agency that once ordered me to stop poking a dolphin corpse ...

Joseph Romm: Obama's Strongest Message on Climate Yet
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com — ... Thursday that "Strong indications are that President-elect Barack Obama has picked physicist John Holdren to be the president's science adviser." ...

Adler: Obamas Political Science Adviser
Articles on National Review Online — ... . In his administration, he pledged, science would not be obstructed or obscured by politics or ideology. Yet if ending science politicization is Obama s goal, he picked the wrong man to be the nation s top science official. On December 20, Obama announced he would name John Holdren as the cabinet-level Assistant to the President for Science and Technology. Holdren is the Teresa and John Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy and director of the Science, Technology, and Public Policy Program at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs. He is a past ...

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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, ...
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 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 ...
Obama Appoints a Pair of Lysenkos
moonbattery.com 12/22/2008 — AP gets the prize for the weekend's most Orwellian lede: President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named Harvard physicist John Holdren and marine biologist Jane Lubchenco to top science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies ...
Obama Names Global Warming And Zero Population Growth Alarmists To Science Posts — Pat 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 ...
Harvard Kennedy School's John P. Holdren to be Named Obama's Science Advisor — Democratic 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 ...
Obama's Science Adviser — The Atlantic Politics Channel
Reported, naturally, by Science, is  Harvard physicist and climate change expert John Holdren. Expect an announcement this weekend.
John Holdren is science's new champion — Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News
Source: [b]The Guardian UK[/b] The decision by Barack Obama to appoint John Holdren as his chief scientific adviser deserves widespread welcome. The Harvard academic and former energy expert at the University of California, Berkeley, commands international respect among physicists, climate ...
Obama's Science Team: 4 Top Members Named — The Huffington Post | Full News Feed
SCROLL DOWN TO WATCH OBAMA'S ANNOUNCEMENT President-elect Barack Obama's selection Saturday of a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist for science posts is a sign he plans a more aggressive response to global warming than did the Bush administration. John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco are ...
Obama's Science Team: 4 Top Members Named — Politics on HuffingtonPost.com
SCROLL DOWN TO WATCH OBAMA'S ANNOUNCEMENT President-elect Barack Obama's selection Saturday of a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist for science posts is a sign he plans a more aggressive response to global warming than did the Bush administration. John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco are ...
Replacing the Invisible Man — Daily 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 ...
The "Insights" of Paul Ehrlich — Ross 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 Advisor — democracyarsenal.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 ...
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 Policy — 44
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 Adviser — Taegan 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 advisor — Ben Smith's Blog
Science reports that John Holdren, a physicist, will be the White House Science Advisors:
Obama science choices show break from Bush — msnbc.com: Politics
U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named Harvard physicist John Holdren and marine biologist Jane Lubchenco to top science posts.
Obama names Holdren, Lubchenco to science posts (AP) — Yahoo! News: Politics News
AP - President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist to science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming that were criticized for putting politics over science.