Posted on 04/04/2009 8:51:27 AM PDT by Schnucki
The scientific community is practically giddy at the prospect of the Obama administration after the supposed cynicism, manipulation and ignorance of the Bush years. After all, the president has promised to "restore science to its rightful place", and to "harness the power of science to achieve our goals". Comparing Obama to Abraham Lincoln, Harvard professor and former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science James McCarthy gushed: "Much like Lincoln, President Obama exhibits intense curiosity and a willingness to listen. Perhaps never before has a president successfully recruited so many scientific stars to his cabinet and other executive positions..." blah, blah, blah.
But given the administration's announced senior political appointees and nominees, the scientific community – at least those who understand that in addition to advancing our understanding of physical and biological processes, science also provides a substrate for new technology – is in for a rude awakening. Many of the appointees in the Obama administration who will influence science-related issues are doctrinaire and radical, and are poorly qualified to offer unbiased advice on policy.
The president's nominee for science adviser, John Holdren, is known primarily as a long-time advocate of policies to slow population growth and as an activist on global warming. During the 1980s, Holdren calculated that famines due to climate change could leave a billion people dead by 2020. He now concedes that that is "unlikely". Although Holdren will head the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, he has no history of advocacy for technology.
Jane Lubchenco, the nominee to head the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, has said that the new social contract for science "should recognise the extent of human domination of the planet. It should express a commitment to harness the full power of the scientific enterprise in discovering
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That speech he gave damning his own country while he was on foreign soil was a disgrace. Like going to a neighbor’s house and bad-mouthing your own family. What a tin-ear this Marxist has. Wonder which mental defective in his administration thought that was a good idea.
Science you say, Global Warming isn’t science. If science were actually applied to the hoax of global warming they would see that CO2 is not a warming gas, it is a regulatory cooling gas.
under Obama's plotical thumb.
Global Warming nut jobs say little about the black smog clouds in China it’s all the U.S.A. fault.
Which would be to use science as a tool (but not for politics), nothing more.
When science is raised to the level as some sort of "all knowing" entity, it becomes a religion to be blindly followed. THAT is dangerous.
Mixing science and politics is rarely a good thing. Remember those Nazi medical experiments on the Jews?
Anthropogenic Global Warming isn’t science, certainly.
There is a real scientific field of climate change, but I doubt even our grandchildren will be able to examine it without wading through tired garbage from the ‘Warmers’.
We are mired in the ‘Age of Stupid’, but not the way the film-makers think!
Wonder which mental defective in his administration thought that was a good idea.
I was surprised, too. I have still to read about the fact that the Senate voted on Wednesday to require a 60 vote majority on any cap and trade tax legislation. The WSJ said that this is a deal killer for the Obama because of the large number of Democrats who joined with the Republicans on this vote.
Barry 0bama -2 for the DVDs to PM Brown
Michelle 0bama -1 for plastic toys to PM’s children
Barry 0bamam -5 for Deep Bow to Saudi King Abdullah
Michelle 0bama -1 for walking in front of Prince Philip
Michelle 0bama -2 for touching/hugging The Queen of England
Barry 0bama’s Speeches at G-20 Meeting -26
Michelle 0bama’s Wardrobe for G-20 Meeting -12
Current Score:
Barry 0= -33
Michelle 0= -16
The Brits are surely keeping score for the lack of protocol and the uncouthness and tactless taste of the 0bamas.
The 0bamas are indeed a Class-Less Act.
This the new era of ignorance and superstition. Reason is subservient to the political agenda.
Forward to slavery...
Only the left wing radical scientists who believe in this hoax called global warming think Obama is good for science.
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