corner.nationalreview.com - 12/19/2008
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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 ...
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 ...
climateprogress.org - 12/20/2008
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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 ...
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Blog Archive » Obama’s strongest message ...
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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 (Ballantine, New York, 1968), as well as one of those in Harrison Brown's prescient earlier book, The Challenge of Man's Future
(Viking, New York, 1954). The elementary but discomfiting truth of it
may account for the vast amount of ink, paper, ...
Change You Can Believe In If You're a Complete Idiot: Obama Names Discredited Globwarm Crackpot as 'Science Adviser'
JammieWearingFool —
... people learn to become open to ideas that conflict with their preconceptions and ideology. That could be a useful skill in an advisor who’s supposed to be presenting the president with a wide range of views. Someone who’d seen how wrong environmentalists had been in ridiculing Dr. Simon’s predictions could, in theory, become more open to dissenting from today’s environmentalist orthodoxy. But I haven’t seen much evidence of such open-mindedness in Dr. Holdren . Believe it or not, it gets worse . Obama ...
Obama Appoints a Pair of Lysenkos
Moonbattery —
... Holdren appears to be a militant leftist first, a scientist sometime afterward. As NRO notes, as recently as 2006 Holdren was still spewing long discredited antihuman rhetoric borrowed from Paul Ehrlich's The Population Bomb, according to which we should all be dead by now of overpopulation. The ecofascist Holdren is opposed to free markets and in favor of nuclear disarmament. ...
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jeffjacoby.com 1/19/2009 — IN NOMINATING John Holdren to be director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy -- the position known informally as White House science adviser -- President-elect Barack Obama has enlisted an undisputed Big Name among academic...
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boston.com 1/18/2009 — The position of science adviser requires Senate confirmation. John Holdren's nomination is likely to sail through, but conscientious senators might wish to ask him some questions.
Capitol Idea: Holdren As Science Adviser Will Bring (More Than Climate) Change
onthehillblog.blogspot.com 12/19/2008 — 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.
Obama names Holdren, Lubchenco to science posts
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news.yahoo.com 12/20/2008 — 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.
Presidential Science Advisor Wants to Reverse American Development
dakotavoice.com 8/3/2009 — The bad news just keeps coming about President Barack Obama’s “science czar” John Holdren. I first pointed out a few weeks ago that Holdren is an anti-American of the first order who fits in well with the rest of the anti-American anti-life radicals ...
Holdren on climate: 'The sky is falling'
politico.com 12/23/2008 — As has been widely noted, the new White House science adviser, John Holdren, is a leading figure in calling for action to combat climate change. As a scientist who knows him explained to me over the weekend, among scientists who worry about climate ...
Adler: Obamas Political Science Adviser
article.nationalreview.com 1/8/2009 — John Holdren has exhibited an extreme intolerance to dissenting views and a tendency to claim his politics are dictated by science.
Archive » You’re Still A Racist, Obama Advisor Says
openmarket.org 10/30/2008 — Obama is simply ENSLAVING poor and minority people to him. Use your brain ... it's in his best interest to KEEP YOU POOR and KEEP YOU DEPENDENT UPON HIM. I thought black people HATED slavery? Why in the world are they allowing THIS biracial idiot to ...
Obama completes his cabinet —
First Read 12/19/2008
From NBC's Athena Jones CHICAGO -- It’s a wrap.
With the announcement of California Rep. Hilda Solis of California as his pick for Labor secretary, former Dallas Mayor Ron Kirk for U.S. Trade Representative and retiring Illinois Rep. ...
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