Beam me to Planet Gore !
Posted on 12/20/2008 9:30:14 AM PST by NormsRevenge
CHICAGO (Reuters) – President-elect Barack Obama underscored on Saturday his intent to push initiatives on climate change by naming John Holdren, an energy and climate specialist, as the new White House science adviser.
Holdren is a Harvard University physicist who has focused on the causes and consequences of climate change and advocated policies aimed at sustainable development. He has also done extensive research on the dangers of nuclear weapons.
Obama pledged to put a priority on encouraging scientific breakthroughs in areas such as alternative energy solutions and finding cures to diseases, as he announced the pick of Holdren and other top science advisers in the Democratic weekly radio and video address.
"Today, more than ever before, science holds the key to our survival as a planet and our security and prosperity as a nation," Obama said. "It's time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and worked to restore America's place as the world leader in science and technology."
"From landing on the moon, to sequencing the human genome, to inventing the Internet, America has been the first to cross that new frontier," Obama said.
Obama said that government has played an important role in encouraging those breakthroughs and could do so in the future.
The Bush administration has had a rocky relationship with the scientific community and was at times accused by critics of ignoring scientific evidence in its efforts to make political points on issues such as global warming.
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We solved global warming?
Good question.
Ping to a real one. I only know how to spell physicist because of this Freeper.
Records show that the earth has been cooling for several years..
Al Gore has succeeded in his quest.
Now he can go back to his farm for a long rest.
Gore’s Well-earned Retirement
I must say to Al, “I’m impressed.”
You’ve completed each goal of your quest.
Temp records aren’t fooling,
Which show the earth’s cooling.
Go back to your farm for a rest.
Holdren is a nut. He predicted a billion dead from global warming by 2020 some years ago. Of course he was and is wrong but that won’t stop him from being a nut.
This idiotic statement, comiing from a Harvard professor, does not speak well of Harvard.
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