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Posted on 11/04/2009 10:34:03 AM PST by bs9021
Behind Global Warming Alarms
Allie Winegar Duzett, November 4, 2009
As the danger of global warming fades, the influence of those who would use it to expand government regulation grows. Neil Maghami of the Capital Research Center investigates those behind today’s climate of environmental alarmism in his October 2009 article, “The Triumph of Environmental Alarmism: Science ‘Czar’ John Holdren and the Woods Hole Research Center.”
In the article, Maghami describes who John Holdren is and why he is significant. Holdren is today President Obama’s science “czar,” and the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). The OSTP is responsible for keeping the president up to date on all matters scientific, ranging from leaps in technology to science ethics issues to climate science. The office helps decide on budget allocations for various research and science programs. Therefore, Maghami argues, the director of the office should be trusted “to make sound recommendations about what the federal government should do.”
However, John Holdren’s scientific background is questionable, Maghami asserts, citing Holdren’s co-authorship of the controversial textbook Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment, which he wrote with radical environmentalist Paul Ehrlich. In this book, Holdren presents arguments for compulsory abortion; the establishment of a “Planetary Regime;” and “zero economic growth (ZEG).”
Maghami goes on to discuss Holdren’s involvement with the Woods Hole Research Center (WHRC), a non-profit institute dedicated to producing science that supports the claims of environmental alarmists. Maghami writes, “From 1994 to 2005, Holdren was vice-chair of the Woods Hole Research Center board of trustees, and in 2005 he became director of the Center.”...
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