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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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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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onthehillblog.blogspot.com - 12/19/2008

Capitol Idea: Holdren As Science Adviser Will Bring (More Than Climate) Change

— 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. (more) Capitol Idea: Holdren As Science Adviser Will Bring ...

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John Holdren to be Obama's Science Advisor
Hit & Run — ... However, at least with regard to technology, Holdren now apparently sees technology as a solution to environmental problems and human poverty.Holdren in his 2006 inaugural lecture as the president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science noted: ...

The "Insights" of Paul Ehrlich
Ross Douthat — ... 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: ...

Change Is Gonna Come
Obsidian Wings — ... be announced tomorrow) that Obama has tapped physicist John Holdren, an international expert on energy and climate issues, to be his science adviser." Chris Mooney: "Scientists are going to be beyond ecstatic about this speech, and this team that Obama has named." You can see a good speech by Holdren here, and read his wonky Presidential Address to the American Association for the Advancement of Science here. And I haven't even gotten to Obama's newest Nobel laureate, Harold Varmus, who ...

Adler: Obamas Political Science Adviser
Articles on National Review Online — ... more expensive, over the next ten years. It didn t help: Ehrlich and Holdren were spectacularly wrong, as the value of all five metals declined. Each had become less scarce, as Simon had predicted. Simon offered another bet, but they declined. Today Holdren s predictions are more nuanced, and he is worried more about the effect of industrialization on the global climate system than physical resource depletion — but his remedies for unsustainability are much the same. In his 2007 presidential address to the American Association for the Advancement of Science, Holdren ...