Obama picks global warming expert as science adviser

McClatchy Newspapers ^ | December 19, 2008 | Renee Schoof

[devere]

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.

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Holdren has said he thinks that if the United States leads with emission reduction requirements, China and the rest of the world will follow

[devere]

It seems that Barry Obama is fully committed to the Gorebot warmist delusion, and we will all suffer the very unfortunate consequences.

[the invisib1e hand]

I think even obama’s handlers — his sponsors, or puppeteers, if you wish — might wondering how to keep him under control.

[ZULU]

That’s great.

For an encore, he is going to pick an alchemist for his metallurgist.

[BenLurkin]

It’s all about more power for government.

[stevem]

...global warming expert...

Oxymoronic, such as UN peacekeeper or liberal intellectual.

[the invisib1e hand]

we will all suffer the very unfortunate consequences.

Yeah. Pity we don't live in a place like America, where people can vote and stuff. Oh, wait...

[the invisib1e hand]

might BE wondering...

dam I hate when I do that...

[drc43]

Yup, like it or not, this is what America wants.

They told us so on election day.

[doc1019]

Obama picks global warming expert as science adviser

If he were a global warming expert, he would know it was BS. ;-)

[jwalsh07]

"[T] he vocal Holdren, who predicted in the mid-1980s that climate-related catastrophes might kill as many as one billion people before the year 2020 but now brushes away such failed catastrophism with: “That the impacts of global climate disruption may not become the dominant sources of environmental harm to humans for yet a few more decades cannot be a great consolation.” Despite his outside affiliations and activism he typically instead carries the Harvard tag, lending the institution’s academic prestige to his environmentalist advocacy. He also happens to be a longtime collaborator with none other than failed prognosticator of doom Paul Ehrlich. Typical of their doomsaying they collaborated to hold a “Cassandra Conference” in 1988 (Cassandra is the lass from Greek mythology whose prophecies were always true and always ignored). " Chris Horner, Planet Gore

[GerardKempf]

Well let’s see - under GW we’ve let our Party go to hell, our financial sector go to pot and our environment worsen. Let’s give this guy a chance - I was super impressed with his pick of Ray LaHood (a great Republican) as Secretary of Transportation and I was super impressed with Gates staying on board.

[the invisib1e hand]

Yup, like it or not, this is what America wants. They told us so on election day.

Utter, defeatist, whining, nonsense.

[ChicagahAl]

“I think even obama’s handlers — his sponsors, or puppeteers, if you wish — might be wondering how to keep him under control.”

Quite the contrary. They have him completely under control. That is the whole point. He is doing their bidding.

We are screwed.

[eclecticEel]

Without climate there is no environment.

Is this statement even intended to have a meaning? And yet the genius who penned this tripe is given accolades for his "insight".

[BenLurkin]

"our environment worsen"

Do you have any links to proof of that?

[Always Right]

Well let’s see - under GW we’ve let our Party go to hell, our financial sector go to pot and our environment worsen. Let’s give this guy a chance - I was super impressed with his pick of Ray LaHood (a great Republican) as Secretary of Transportation and I was super impressed with Gates staying on board.

I am starting to wonder what happened to FreeRepublic....

[Canedawg]

you are right.

Odumbo is the front man- he’s not the brains behind the operation.

[4Speed]

WIthout Global warming IDIOTS there is NO Global Warming, only Truth in climate description.

Obama can Appoint the Goracle himself, but unfortunately AL is not a Reputable Scientists, and after another few months of this Winter into 2009, his new Green appointment will fade into the Snowbank.

Too Cold to SKI in Aspen, BHO.
Chicago told it’s Citizens today, Friday, DO NOT DRIVE ! ICE/Snow around Chicago was too dangerous. Seattle is getting snow, etc..etc... They better have another meeting in Bali again.

[Always Right]

Do you have any links to proof of that?

If global warming is the guage, Bush should be praised as a huge sucess. Bush completely reversed the warming trend under his watch, and turned it into slight cooling. ALL the global warming models say the rate of tempreture increases were suppose to keep raising until we were all doomed. Bush saved the planet single-handedly!

[Flycatcher]

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 one sentence (clunky syntax and all) perfectly explains the reason why the Left will never let go of their Global Warming political crusade.

I'm actually surprised Holdren said it.