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Current Events => Breaking News => Topic started by: thundley4 on December 20, 2008, 06:22:10 PM

Title: Obama signals break with Bush in new science team
Post by: thundley4 on December 20, 2008, 06:22:10 PM
(http://voanews.com/english/images/ap_us_science_Holdren_20dec08_eng_175.jpg)
Looks like a formerly unwashed hippy to me.
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WASHINGTON (AFP) – President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday signalled climate change and genetic research will be among his top priorities when he takes office as he named White House science and technology advisers.
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Signalling a break with Bush policies on global warming, Obama named John Holdren, an award-winning environmental policy professor at Harvard University, to head the Office of Science and Technology Policy and co-chair the president's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.
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Obama called Holdren "one of the most passionate and persistent voices of our time about the growing threat of climate change."
Holdren, 64, led the Pugwash Conferences on Science and World Affairs, an international group of prominent scientists that won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1995. He won a MacArthur Foundation "genius award" in 1981 for his arms control work, and a number of environmental science awards.
Holdren, a Washington Beltway insider, served as former president Bill Clinton's science and technology adviser in the 1990s.
Underscoring the importance of genetic research, the president-elect also named Eric Lander and Harold Varmus as co-chairmen of the council of advisors.
We are so screwed (http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081220/wl_afp/uspoliticsobamascience). 
Title: Re: Obama signals break with Bush in new science team
Post by: Chris on December 20, 2008, 06:27:50 PM
Another Clnton retread? 
Title: Re: Obama signals break with Bush in new science team
Post by: Eupher on December 22, 2008, 09:37:28 AM
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...Obama on Saturday signalled climate change and genetic research will be among his top priorities...

More pontification from His Holiness.  :whatever:

How many "top priorities" can this guy have?

How many promises can this guy break?

I'm betting on 87% Any takers?
Title: Re: Obama signals break with Bush in new science team
Post by: Peter3_1 on December 22, 2008, 01:01:06 PM
The lunatics are comming, the lunatics are comming!   Question, how does one apply the "scientific method" to "arms control".
Title: Re: Obama signals break with Bush in new science team
Post by: miskie on December 22, 2008, 05:18:47 PM
Quote from: thundley4 on December 20, 2008, 06:22:10 PM
(http://voanews.com/english/images/ap_us_science_Holdren_20dec08_eng_175.jpg)
Looks like an formerly unwashed hippy to me.

Fix0rz3d for accuracy.