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Title: Obama picks global warming expert as science adviser
Source: Yahoo - McClatchey
URL Source: http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20081219/sc_mcclatchy/3127491
Published: Dec 19, 2008
Author: Renee Schoof, McClatchy Newspapers
Post Date: 2008-12-19 22:49:54 by Rotara
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WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama's choice of John P. Holdren as his science adviser sends a strong signal that Obama sees global warming as an urgent problem and wants bold suggestions for action.

The Harvard University environmental policy professor has argued that the world already is experiencing dangerous climate change as a result of fossil fuel combustion. He's said there's still time to avert catastrophe, but only with a strong and rapid global effort.

At a recent talk in Washington , Holdren boiled it down to this:

"Without energy there is no economy. Without climate there is no environment. Without economy and environment there's no material well-being, there's no civil society, there's no personal or national or international security. And the problem is that the way we've been getting the energy our economies need is wrecking the climate that our environment needs. That is the essence of the problem."

He said at the time that he hoped that the next administration would "really break its spear on the question of can we get a sensible climate policy with the Congress and the public behind it" in time to go to the final round of negotiations on a new international treaty late next year "and finally have a voice that is respected by other countries."

Harvard issued a news release Friday saying that Obama is expected to announce Holdren's appointment Saturday. The science adviser heads the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President.

Holdren has gone to China half a dozen times a year since 1984 to meet with Chinese climate and energy officials. Tsinghua University , one of China's most prestigious schools, named him this year as a three-year nonresident guest professor.

Holdren has said he thinks that if the United States leads with emission reduction requirements, China and the rest of the world will follow, because their countries already are suffering from water and agricultural problems.

Holdren has also said that scientists need to get better at explaining what's happening with more urgency. The term "global warming" could be part of the problem, he argued, because it implies something uniform, gradual and benign, and it's none of those.

"It is rapid compared to the capacity of ecosystems to adjust and, alas, rapid compared to our capacity as a society to adjust," he said.

"We should be calling it global climatic disruption."

Holdren is a professor of environmental policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government and the director of the science, technology and public policy program at the school's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs . He also is the director of the Woods Hole Research Station .

He earned Master of Science and Ph.D. degrees in aerospace engineering and plasma physics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Stanford University . He's a specialist in nuclear arms control and nonproliferation as well as global climate change and energy policy.

"John is the very model of a policy-relevant scientist," Belfer Center Director Graham Allison said in a statement Friday. "He has a deep understanding of the dynamics of science and technology as drivers of the challenges society faces — from climate disruption to nuclear danger — and new opportunities for feasible solutions."

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In this Wednesday, Oct. 17, 2007 file photo, John Holdren, professor of Environmental Science and Public Policy in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences at Harvard University, speaks at the Carnegie Medal of Philanthropy presentations in Pittsburgh. (AP Photo/Keith Srakocic) (1 image)

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#1. To: All (#0)

The Harvard University environmental policy professor has argued that the world already is experiencing dangerous climate change as a result of fossil fuel combustion. He's said there's still time to avert catastrophe, but only with a strong and rapid global effort.

Freakin ivy league (read: Feral training skool) elitist World Communists.

Pure deception.

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams

Rotara  posted on  2008-12-19   22:51:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#2. To: Rotara (#1)

Have you noticed the hair on Oblama's picks?

The dog grooming business is going to skyrocket.

"Wherever a Knave is not punished, an honest Man is laugh'd at." -- George Savile (1633-1695)
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

OliviaFNewton  posted on  2008-12-19   22:53:41 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#3. To: OliviaFNewton (#2)

ROFLOL !

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams

Rotara  posted on  2008-12-19   22:54:28 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#4. To: Rotara (#3)

ROFLOL !

s'true.. ;)

"Wherever a Knave is not punished, an honest Man is laugh'd at." -- George Savile (1633-1695)
"Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth." -- Henry David Thoreau (1817-1862)

OliviaFNewton  posted on  2008-12-19   22:57:44 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#5. To: OliviaFNewton (#4)

I know, I know !!

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.”—Samuel Adams

Rotara  posted on  2008-12-19   22:59:53 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: Rotara, *Agriculture-Environment* (#0) (Edited)

You beat me to it.

I take that back, different pick different post. I'll go ahead and put mine up.


Meet the new boss, same as the old boss — The Who

farmfriend  posted on  2008-12-20   0:01:16 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: Rotara, OliviaFNewton (#5)

If you notice all of Obama's appointments are certified crooks like Geithner. Glonal warming is an elitist scam. It allows the Bilderbergers to de- industrialize and impverish American. I put this phony Global warming freak in the crooks category.

The other category are payoffs to the crazies who supported him. Napolitano is at DHS to allow millions of illegals into this country. The education secretary is there to radicalize the schools and the HUD Secretary is there to help his black and Hispanic voters.

The Truth of 911 Shall Set You Free From The Lie

Horse  posted on  2008-12-20   0:18:35 ET  Reply   Trace   Private Reply  


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