Strong indications are that President-elect Barack Obama has picked physicist John Holdren to be the president's science adviser.
A top adviser to the Obama campaign and international expert on energy and climate, Holdren would bolster Obama's team in those areas. Both are crowded portfolios. Obama has already created a new position to coordinate energy issues in the White House staffed by well-connected Carol Browner, former head of the Environmental Protection Agency, and nominated a Nobel-prize winning physicist, Steve Chu, to head the Department of Energy. That could complicate how the Office of Science and Technology Policy, which Holdren will run, will manage energy and environmental policy. "OSTP will have to be redefined in relation to these other centers of formulating policy," says current White House science adviser Jack Marburger.
Holdren had been planning to attend a staff meeting this morning with colleagues at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government, where he heads the technology and science program. But instead, he flew today to Chicago to meet with the transition team and prepare for the announcement; initial plans are to release the official news of the appointment on a weekly radio program that Obama records and will be broadcast on Saturday. The transition office declined to comment.
Holdren is well known for his work on energy, climate change, and nuclear proliferation. Trained in fluid dynamics and plasma physics, Holdren branched out into policy early in his career. He has led the Woods Hole Research Center for the past 3 years and served as president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (which publishes ScienceInsider) in 2006.
—Eli Kintisch
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Congratulations to John ... and to Eli for the scoop.
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John Holden coauthored a book Ecoscience in the 1970's. It is a personal rights and freedom nightmare. Forced population control, forced sterilization and forced abortions whether it's wanted or not. A global armed force to enforce this in our own country with denationalization. Also tons of renowned and creditable scientists have gone on record and lists as claiming the global warming as a fraud. It is a Gore, Pelosi and several others we could name being an economic, political agenda. If not why have they invested so deeply in certain GREEN companies then trying to force through so many bills without allowing others to read them. What are they afraid of. The cap N trade bill will be the death of America's competitiveness on a global level. It's all fine and good to want to live in a perfect utopia but it isn't realistic either. This man has scary and invasive ideas. Just like Obama and Pelosi, Frank is an idiot and should be held responsible for financial demises. Reid is a lap dog. Wake up America. They are behaving like teenagers that just got the PIN code to their mother's credit card, but eventually we will pay up. Check the statistics, there is a reason that UTah and Nebraska are so much better off financially and crime wise, we are conservatives by nature. I didn't say Republicans, I said frugal, conservatives. We are selling our soul and land to China for loans and they have every interest in hi teching their country right into a war with us for all we do have. Who has huge coal deposits, oil (that they would be happy to drill for and use)? Wake up America, it's coming toward us like a freight train.
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Great post Eli! John Holdren will make a great advisor
And now that the news is official, further comment @ 2020science:
http://2020science.org/2008/12/20/obama-staking-out-a-science-and-technology-presidency/
This is a good look at John Holdren if you want to see his overview on climate.
http://usclimateaction.org/userfiles/flash/Holdren.html
It's from the American Response to Climate Change Conference held in the Adirondacks this June.
This is a good look at John Holdren if you want to see his overview on climate.
http://usclimateaction.org/userfiles/flash/Holdren.html
It's from the American Response to Climate Change Conference held in the Adirondacks this June.
I sincerely hope that Mr. Holdren can influence a turn away from the use of population growth as a tool for propping up the macroeconomy.
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"At this point, these antennas are good at capturing energy, but they're not very good at converting it," says INL engineer Dale Kotter, "but we have very promising exploratory research under way." Kotter and Novack are also exploring ways to transform the high-frequency alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) that can be stored in batteries. One possibility is to create antennas with a spiral shape and place high-speed rectifiers, or special diodes, at the center to convert the electricity from AC to DC. The team has a patent pending on a variety of potential energy conversion methods. They anticipate they are only a few years away from creating the next generation of solar energy collectors.
Great news indeed, and congrats on the scoop Eli!
Way to go, Eli!! Great news for everyone and you got the scoop!
Congratulations to John ... and to Eli for the scoop.
Great News!
http://2020science.org/2008/12/18/john-holdren-obamas-new-science-advisor/
Early congrats John! Very well deserved..