Yet another kook joins the Osama administration. Great.
One more nutcase to the administration.
It could be rationally argued that Al Gore would have been a more moderate alarmist as an appointment to Obama's Science post.
I notice that his graduate degrees are in aerospace engineering and particle physics. Not ecology. Not environmental science. Not meteorology. Not climatology. Not anything relating to "environmental policy". Must be nice to grab a full professorship in a field in which you have no formal training. Myself, I've always liked taking up space. Maybe they'll make me Professor of Astronomy? I'd be just as qualified as he is.
I bet the guy has a fluff degree. Otherwise he would be waiving it around proudly. Some watered down degree that kinda sounds like it's scientific, but really isn't?
Anyone have a bio on him? Not some Wikipedia self ingratiating nonsense.
This is certainly no surprise... but it is still VERY INFURIATING!!! As a NOAA Meteorologist I have very few colleagues who believe man is causing global warming. Of course they are all liberals.
Data? Data?? WE DON’T NEED NO STINKING DATA???? Never mind the fact that temps have not risen in recent years and that we are likely headed towards a cooling period.
Hannity is so fond of saying that “journalism is dead”... well real science is also dead. And that is far worse than journalism dieing because journalism can’t set public policy.. only report on it where the death of science means the Obamanazis can try to pass ANYTHING with Queen Pelosi and King Reid going along.. if not pushing it.
In a yahoo article about the appointment
(http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081220/ap_on_go_pr_wh/obama)
the Messiah states:
“Because the truth is that promoting science isn’t just about providing resources — it’s about protecting free and open inquiry. It’s about ensuring that facts and evidence are never twisted or obscured by politics or ideology,” he said. “I could not have a better team to guide me in this work.”
What a hypocrite.
ANY thing these morons come up with to combat global warming will do two things:
1. nothing to reduce temps since the sun is responsible
2. destroy the economy.
I know this fellow from many years past. He recruited me to join his academic program when he was still at Berkeley. At the time I was too naive to know better but I instead went elsewhere and got an aerospace engineering M.S. rather than a worthless M.S. in environmental B.S.
Of course, no doubt, those who did study with this idiot think they made exactly the right decision.
By the way, he is a global warming pimp who made news last year claiming that the UN should enact a global income tax to adjust wealth because of global warming and other environmental issues. We need to be careful because this notion might get more publicity now that he's on the Messiah's staff.
John P. Holdren... has been an activist on the ecological left and no friend of free markets... activism well beyond his own academic specialty, arguing, for instance, that scientists have a responsibility to advance the cause of the elimination of all nuclear weapons and seeking controls on population growth.Thanks Free ThinkerNY.