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| White House Science Czar Involved in Climategate |
| 2009-11-28 |
| You haven't heard it from America's mainstream media yet -- even Fox News hasn't covered it -- but the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Dr. John P. Holdren, is a key player in the Climategate e-mails flap, which is shaping up as the biggest scandal in the history of modern science. Holdren is an intractable global warming activist with no time for climate change skepticism. In a New York Times article, he contended that such questioning "has delayed -- and continues to delay -- the development of the political consensus that will be needed if society is to embrace remedies commensurate with the challenge." He has also become something of a celebrity, rubbing shoulders with the Hollywood luminaries at President Obama's state dinner Tuesday night honoring Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, and repeatedly appearing as a guest on the David Letterman show. But the Canada Free Press this week revealed that the former Harvard professor and Al Gore global warming adviser features prominently in the thousands of e-mails and other files made public after the hacking last week of a computer server used by the University of East Anglia Climate Research Unit. The most embarrassing item for the Obama Administration may be a 2003 exchange between Holdren and TCSDaily.com editor-in-chief Nick Schulz. Schulz challenged Holdren on whether downplaying the significance of the Medieval Warm Period required "what lawyers call the burden of proof." Holdren's retort contained a remarkable assertion coming from a scientist: "In practice, burden of proof is an evolving thing -- it evolves as the amount of evidence relevant to a particular proposition grows." Canada Free Press columnist and Canadian climatologist Dr. Tim Ball says of the correspondence with Schulz that Holdren's "entire defense and position devolves to a political position." The CRU documents also find Holdren disparaging solar physicists Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon, contrarians regarding surface temperatures over the past millennium, who were colleagues of Holdren at Harvard, and Ball wonders if Holdren may have intimidated the two scientists before they "suddenly and politely withdrew from the fray," as Ball describes it. As Newsmax has previously reported, Dr. Holdren has a history of alarmingly extremist views. He co-authored a 1977 book, "Ecoscience: Population Resources, Environment," advocating compulsory abortion for purposes of population control, mass sterilization, government-dictated family size like China's one-child policy, and a "planetary regime" to be policed by the United Nations. Not long before the Supreme Court's Roe v. Wade ruling legalizing abortion-on-demand throughout America, Holdren co-authored "Human Ecology: Problems and Solutions," which seems to argue that even years after birth a baby is not yet a human being. "The fetus, given the opportunity to develop properly before birth," claims the book's "Population Limitation" section, "and given the essential early socializing experiences and sufficient nourishing food during the crucial early years after birth, will ultimately develop into a human being." Holdren's "Human Ecology" warns of large-scale disaster that might require "involuntary fertility control" to stop population growth. "Compulsory control of family size is an unpalatable idea, but the alternatives may be much more horrifying," the Holdren book suggests. As a member of President Bill Clinton's Committee of Advisers on Science and Technology, Holdren chaired a study providing the groundwork for U.S.-Russian cooperation on securing nuclear materials in the aftermath of post-Cold War disarmament. |
| Posted by:Ulereter Thraviter6552 |
| #8 advocating compulsory abortion for purposes of population control, mass sterilization, government-dictated family size like China's one-child policy, and a "planetary regime" to be policed by the United Nations. Another of Obama's inner circle whose favorite philosopher is Mao. Everybody must Great Leap Forward! |
| Posted by: ed 2009-11-28 20:28 |
| #7 This will be great! Another nutjob advising the number one nutjob. This will make great theater while the US is crumbling. |
| Posted by: 49 Pan 2009-11-28 19:14 |
| #6 Another unscreened 'appointee' with defacto cabinet level power outed. A shining example of why the 'DWM's' who wrote the Constitution were so smart. It's called 'ADVISE AND CONSENT' |
| Posted by: Waldemar Gleamp1150 2009-11-28 18:38 |
| #5 That Marx guy also caused a few problems with his Lysenko style economics. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2009-11-28 18:33 |
| #4 Thank Gaia that the Obama administration has stopped policising science. Now that those EVIL Republicans are out of power, we'll be able to use science to save the planet, assure peace, and social justice, stop pollution, save the rain forest, achieve self-actualization of all sentient life forms, align the planets, and achieve a new age of universal harmony and peace. Kumbaya my lord, kumbaya ... |
| Posted by: DMFD 2009-11-28 18:26 |
| #3 Quite a few years ago I read the book, The rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko. He set Russian agriculture back years with his crackpot theories. And quite a few died from his stupid agricultural policies. The US under O is heading the same way unless we change course. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2009-11-28 16:15 |
| #2 Holdren's similarity to this guy is pretty striking. Disturbing, too... |
| Posted by: Ricky bin Ricardo (Abu Babaloo) 2009-11-28 15:07 |
| #1 What's not to like about global warming by these "watermelons [green on the outside-red on the inside]?" 1. It puts junk science to work for their causes. 2. It creates a one world currency based on more snake oil; carbon credits. 3. It validates Al Gore's Peace Prize and Oscar. 4. It makes Hollywood look intelligent and "green" and caring. 5. It redistributes income to those who are deserving--that is everyone but US. 6. It bring our economy down to that of Zimbabwe, Somalia, and other 3rd world countries. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2009-11-28 09:44 |