news.yahoo.com - 12/20/2008
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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.
blogs.sciencemag.org - 12/18/2008
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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 ...
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Sources: John Holdren to be Nominated as Obama's Science ...
corner.nationalreview.com - 12/19/2008
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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, ...
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Obama's Science Advisor
onthehillblog.blogspot.com - 12/19/2008
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onthehillblog.blogspot.com —
It's true that Holdren used his position last
year as president of the American Association for the...
Advancement of Science as a platform to prod Bush to do more to limit the carbon dioxide put into the atmosphere. But it also paints Holdren into a corner -- his influence can be much more.
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Capitol Idea: Holdren As Science Adviser Will Bring ...
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Change You Can Believe In If You're a Complete Idiot: Obama Names Discredited Globwarm Crackpot as 'Science Adviser'
JammieWearingFool —
Get ready for at least four more years of global warming hysteria to be shoved down your throat. Oh, and watch your wallet while you're at since you're going to pay through the nose for the crackpot schemes this guy will force upon us. 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. Both John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco are leading experts on climate change who have advocated forceful ...
Serious about science
The Reaction —
... Here's another indication that Obama is far more progressive than some of his progressive critics -- and, yes, his support for Lieberman and some of his questionable appointments (Gates, Jones, Salazar, etc.) -- would suggest. In contrast to Bush, Obama evidently intends to take science seriously: ...
Obama names 4 top members of science team
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News —
... evidence are never twisted or obscured by politics or ideology." The four scientists will confront challenges in global warming after years of inaction by the Bush administration, which opposed mandatory cuts of greenhouse gas pollution. Last year, former Surgeon General Richard Carmona testified to Congress that top administration officials often dismissed global warming as a "liberal cause" and sought to play down public health reports out of political considerations. Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081220/ap_on_el_pr/obama Thank Jeebus! Rationality is back! Maybe ...
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'Drill, baby, drill' process has begun —
CNN Political Ticker 12/20/2008
As the price of gas surged past $4 a gallon this summer, U.S. drilling became a hot political issue.
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Remember "drill, baby drill"? In its last weeks in office, the Bush administration is starting to make it happen by ...
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