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reason.com - 12/19/2008
John Holdren to be Obama's Science Advisor
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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 science advisor by President-elect Barack ...
Sources: John Holdren to be Nominated as Obama's Science Adviser
blogs.sciencemag.org - 12/18/2008
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 ...

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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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corner.nationalreview.com - 12/19/2008
Obama's Science Advisor
— corner.nationalreview.com — 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, ... (more) Obama's Science Advisor

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Instapundit:  OBAMA’S SCIENCE ADVISER: This isn’t encouraging: “In his salad days, Holdren was a paid-up member …

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OBAMA’S SCIENCE ADVISER: This isn’t encouraging: “In his salad days, Holdren was a paid-up member …
Instapundit — OBAMA’S SCIENCE ADVISER: This isn’t encouraging: “In his salad days, Holdren was a paid-up member of The Limits to Growth club. . . . Near the beginning of his career, Holdren introduced with his colleague, perennial population alarmist Paul Ehriich, the concept of the I=PAT equation. Human Impact on the environment is equal to Population x Affluence/consumption x Technology. All of which are supposed to intensify and worsen humanity’s impact on the natural world. In the past Holdren has adhered to the common ecologist’s disdain for insights from economics in helping solve environmental ...

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Obama's Science Advisor — The Corner on National Review Online
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, he has been an activist on the ecological ...
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.