John Holdren. Flickr.com/nasahqphoto (NASA)
Mr. John Holdren, Director of Science and Technology Policy or "Science Czar" at the White House, has his own embarrassing history with the East Anglia Climatic Research Unit, as the CRU e-mail record shows.
According to Tim Ball and Judi McLeod at Canada Free Press, Holdren was directly complicit in impugning the credibility of certain physicists who challenged the orthodox opinion on anthropogenic global warming (AGW), specifically with reference to the Medieval Warm Period of 800-1300, that preceded the Little Ice Age of 1400-1850. These physicists, Sallie Baliunas and Willie Soon, published a paper in 2003, "Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years", in the journal Climate Research, explaining their findings. In brief, they correlated average temperature, using humidity as a proxy, with sunspot activity, and found that sunspot activity correlated well with the Medieval Warm Period and the Little Ice Age.
(Soon and Baliunas also published a 32-page monograph, "Lessons and Limits in Climate History," for the George C. Marshall Institute. The executive summary of that document states that the evidence for AGW is lacking, and that the observed warming is merely a recovery from the Little Ice Age.)
In response to Soon and Baliunas' submission in Climate Research, Michael Mann (of hockey-stick fame) published "On past temperatures and anomalous late-20th century warmth", in the journal Eos (the Greek name for the personification of dawn), which attempted to refute the Soon/Baliunas findings, saying that the proxies chosen were not sufficient to establish the warming and cooling trends.
Climatic Research Unit (Photo courtesy CRU)
CRU Archive File No. 1066337021.txt contains a long series of back-to-back e-mails between John Holdren, then at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, in which Holdren argued with Nick Shultz, editor of Tech Central Station, as to the credibility of Soon and Baliunas as scientists. In that exchange, Holdren rather peremptorially told Schultz that AGW was now as obvious as are the First and Second Laws of Thermodynamics.
The following direct quotes by Holdren illustrate the extreme political sensitivity that informed his entire approach to science:
My impression is that the critics [of Soon and Baliunas] are right. It s unfortunate that so much attention is paid to a flawed analysis, but that s what happens when something happens to support the political climate in Washington.
By "political climate in Washington," presumably Holdren means the existence of President Bush and not that of a President Gore.
In closing his first response to Mr. Schultz, Holdren added this postscript:
I have provided this response to your query as a personal communication, not as fodder for selective excerpting on your web site or elsewhere. If you do decide that you would like to propagate my views on this matter more widely, I ask that you convey my response in its entirety.
More to the point, throughout the exchange, Holdren employed at least three logical fallacies: argumentum ad hominem, proof by authority, and proof by numbers.
In reply, Schultz humbly pleaded his own lack of scholarly credentials (specifically the degree of Doctor of Philosophy), and then asked how public policy could be made in a democratic republic if the scientific conclusions that formed the base of that policy were "beyond the reach" of most citizens' understanding. Holdren's direct reply to this is especially revealing:
This is a hard problem. Certainly the difficulty is not restricted to climate science and policy, but applies also to nuclear-weapon science and policy, nuclear-energy science and policy, genetic science and policy, and much more. But I don't think the difficulties are insurmountable. That's why I'm in the business I'm in, which is teaching about and working on the intersection of science and technology with policy.
This is the same John Holdren who, together with Paul and Anne Ehrlich in their book Ecoscience, called for mandatory abortion, the development and introduction of "sterilants" to the people's food and water, the seizure of all babies born out-of-wedlock for government-directed adoption placement, involuntary sterilization, and a "planetary regime" to dictate population size and resource use.
John Holdren's name does not appear in any e-mails until January 2009, when he was copied on an e-mail by Mike McCracken to Phil Jones and several others, concerning Jones' prediction that 2009 would be one of the hottest years on record. This e-mail, in turn, was included in five e-mails sent in January 2009 to and from various persons other than John Holdren.
Literature references:
W. Soon and S. Baliunas, "Proxy climatic and environmental changes of the past 1000 years", Climate Research, vol. 23, pp 89ff, 2003.
M. Mann, C. Amman, R. Bradley, K. Briffa, P. Jones, T. Osborn, T. Crowley, M. Hughes, M. Oppenheimer, J. Overpeck, S. Rutherford, K. Trenberth, and T. Wigley, "On past temperatures and anomalous late-20th century warmth", Eos, vol 84, no. 27, pp 256ff, 8 July 2003.
Other articles about John Holdren appear in Wikipedia and Conservapedia.
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Seriously you right wingers are losing ur minds. All we had to do was elect a black President for it to be so malicious as it is.
It is, and always has been, about MONEY. People have become billionaires with all this global warming and "green" crap. Many more were poised to. And now,. . .it's about time this all came out.
Can we finally get rid of everything being freaking GREEN?
Ryan, cut it with the racism card, won't work. Fact is, these IPCC and Al Gore people made this up so we could have a tax for the 'global governance'. NO WAY! They should be jailed for lying and treason....They have been telling us for years they made this up... check this quote:
"Bring the divided nation together to face an outside enemy, either a real one or else one INVENTED for the purpose.... Democracy will be made to seem responsible for the lagging economy, the scarcity and uncertainties. The very concept of democracy could then be brought into question and allow for the seizure of power..... In searching for a new enemy to unite us, we came up with the idea that pollution, the threat of global warming, water shortages, famine and the like would fit the bill.... The real enemy then is humanity itself.”
- The First Global Revolution (1991) published by the Club of Rome.
If you just read, they will openly admit this is about WORLD GOVERNMENT.
@Ryan--It's not Barack Obama's race that is at issue here, but his judgment and discernment in his appointments. (Though whether we ought even to have "czars" is a separate question.) I doubt very seriously that Thomas Sowell, Walter E. Williams, Charles Payne, or Michael Steele would have made any appointments that were remotely similar.
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I wonder how fast this whole unravelling will take place. How long before Holdren is forced to resign? How long before the IPCC is shut down. How long before the UN is shut down?
This guy RYAN writes a bunch of leftist articles on the examiner site. You can see he is full of communist bullsh!t.
@Ryan
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In regards to the question of LIA and MWP, I never expected to see such bias from a scientist considering that the hypothesis of anthropogenic global warming is tenuous at best if they are taken into consideration. Below is an excerpt of an email from Phil Jones to Tom Wigley on October 22 2004:
"Bottom line - their is no way the MWP (whenever it was) was as warm globally as the last 20 years. There is also no way a whole decade in the LIA period was more than 1 deg C on a global basis cooler than the 1961-90 mean. This is all gut feeling, no science, but years of experience of dealing with global scales and varaibility."
Hunch or not, certain things remain to be proved or disproved scientifically.
You people are science illiterate crank tea baggers.
Soon and Baliunas' paper was utter tripe, and easily demonstrated so by peer review :
deepclimate.org/2009/12/02/in-the-beginning-friends-of-science-talisman-energy-and-the-de-freitas-brothers/
Enjoy your retard nation with Palin and Cheney.
@Thomas Lee Elifritz: Oh, sure, the Soon-Baliunas paper was "tripe," as you put it, and "easily refuted by peer review." Because the same incestuous relationships between authors and "peer reviewers" that was documented in the CRU Archive, persists today.
Do you really think that you are fooling anyone anymore? Do you think that John Holdren can continue to fool people?
"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and you can fool all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time." -- Abraham Lincoln.
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