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Obama picks global warming expert as science adviser


WASHINGTON — President-elect Barack Obama's choice of John P. Holdren as his science adviser sends a strong signal that Obama sees global warming as an urgent problem and wants bold suggestions for action.

The Harvard University environmental policy professor has argued that the world already is experiencing dangerous climate change as a result of fossil fuel combustion. He's said there's still time to avert catastrophe, but only with a strong and rapid global effort.

At a recent talk in Washington , Holdren boiled it down to this:

"Without energy there is no economy. Without climate there is no environment. Without economy and environment there's no material well-being, there's no civil society, there's no personal or national or international security. And the problem is that the way we've been getting the energy our economies need is wrecking the climate that our environment needs. That is the essence of the problem."


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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

..so it will be fixed the same as acid rain had been?   we still have acid rain.  ...you can add dead zones to ocean.   rather then grow to the most consumption, it is time to improve the quality of life. which is separate from wanton reckless consumption.

the issue is mute- it is simply an excuse to impose a global tax.  

we need to leave the UN, the WTO, NAFTA, GATT, the IMF, as neusian,  we need to get back to states rights...and dump the mode of being a fricken colony of the new world order.

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ORIGINAL: Hippiekinkster

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ORIGINAL: pahunkboy

..so it will be fixed the same as acid rain had been?   we still have acid rain.  ...you can add dead zones to ocean.   rather then grow to the most consumption, it is time to improve the quality of life. which is separate from wanton reckless consumption.

the issue is mute- it is simply an excuse to impose a global tax.  

we need to leave the UN, the WTO, NAFTA, GATT, the IMF, as neusian,  we need to get back to states rights...and dump the mode of being a fricken colony of the new world order.

Moot. Moot. 

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ORIGINAL: Sanity


Gosh, we share some agreement on something. But you forgot to mention the carbon credit schemes...

And why is it that it seems like every time something like this is announced it's snowing in Las Vegas and there's a blizzard in New York, or there are record lows every place.

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ORIGINAL: slaveboyforyou

I don't know about global warming.  I love the physical sciences, but I never did that well in those subjects.  I love listening and learning about our universe, but I would never pretend to be an authority on what goes on.  However, I am rational.  I can learn and compare data.  The idea of global warming sounds rational to me.  To my fellow conservative pals:  I'm sorry, I just don't aggree that it's a scam.  I say the same thing to my Christian friends that don't believe in evolution. 

I don't know about Obama's science advisor, but I didn't know anything about Bush's or Clinton's.  I don't know who they were. 

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Without energy there is no economy.

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ORIGINAL: celticlord2112

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Without energy there is no economy.

With these few words, the man proves himself a moron.

Which explains why he's a global warming "expert". 

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ORIGINAL: celticlord2112

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Without energy there is no economy.

With these few words, the man proves himself a moron.

Which explains why he's a global warming "expert". 

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Shirtless images of Obama cause stir online

WASHINGTON (AP) - Forget Barack Obama's staff making contact with a governor charged with corruption. What's got everyone talking is the president-elect's fine first form.


"FIT FOR OFFICE: Buff Bam is Hawaii hunk," the New York Post gushed on its cover Tuesday above a photo of the future president strolling without a shirt in Hawaii. The Drudge Report called him "President Beefcake" while TMZ said the president-elect is "still humble enough to do laundry—ON HIS ABS!"


The photos were distributed by Bauer-Griffin, a photo agency more typically found on the corners of Hollywood. Photographer Chris Behnke simply strolled along the beach to get the shot, said agency co-owner Frank Griffin.


Obama "wasn't hiding. He was completely out in the open," Griffin said. "We didn't by any stretch of the imagination expect to get the images we got."


Griffin said Behnke had gone to the beach to get general views of the estate where Obama is vacationing, but instead found easy access to a view of the first family hitting the beach. "We use the expression, 'He gave it up,' " Griffin said.

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ORIGINAL: MasterG2kTR

At least Obama is taking a vacation now, before he takes office. Bush was in the whitehouse only a couple weeks, when he then decided to take a whole month off!  We can just be grateful that he wasn't seen with his shirt off. Aside from that, who cares? He's taking advantage of some family time. In less than a month the man will have no life of his own any more. If it were me, I'd probably do the same thing.