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Obama chooses global warming activists for science posts; Physicist John Holdren will be the president-elect’s top science advisor; marine biologist Jane Lubchenco will lead NOAA; Both advocate more action to fight climate change

Posted by: Maven on December 21, 2008 at 7:37 am

From the Los Angeles Times:

President-elect Barack Obama’s selections Saturday of a Harvard physicist and a marine biologist for science posts signal that he plans a more aggressive response to global warming than the Bush administration’s was.

John Holdren and Jane Lubchenco are leading experts on climate change who have advocated forceful government action. Holdren will become Obama’s science advisor as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Lubchenco will lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which does much of the government’s research on global warming.

Holdren also will direct the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. Joining him as co-chairmen will be Nobel Prize-winning scientist Harold E. Varmus, a former director of the National Institutes of Health and a former medical professor at UC San Francisco; and MIT professor Eric Lander, a specialist in human genome research.

“It’s time we once again put science at the top of our agenda and worked to restore America’s place as the world leader in science and technology,” Obama said in announcing the selections in his weekly radio address.

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December 21, 2008 · Filed Under Climate change & water supply

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