The Senate on Thursday confirmed an expert on global climate change as President Obama's top adviser on science and technology policy.
John Holdren became the president's science adviser as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. He has advocated sharp government action on climate change policy and is a former president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the nation's largest science organization.
Holdren celebrated Thursday evening with staff at his new office, declining to comment except to say: "I'm very happy to have been confirmed."
Holdren was a Harvard physicist who went from battling the spread of nuclear weapons to tackling the threat of global warming. As Obama's top science adviser, he now manages about 40 Ph.D.-level experts who help shape and communicate science and technology policy.
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