Obama's science picks signal global warming policy changes

[usregimechange]

President-elect Barack Obama named John Holdren, left, and Jane Lubchenco to top science posts. Left: AP file photo; right: Oregon State University via AP


WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. President-elect Barack Obama on Saturday named Harvard physicist John Holdren and marine biologist Jane Lubchenco to top science posts, signaling a change from Bush administration policies on global warming that were criticized for putting politics over science.

Both Holdren and Lubchenco are leading experts on climate change who have advocated forceful government response. Holdren will become Obama's science adviser as director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; Lubchenco will lead the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, which oversees ocean and atmospheric studies and does much of the government's research on global warming.

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-12-19-science-posts_N.htm?csp=34


:woohoo:

[Jamastiene]

1. Keeping fingers crossed.

I hope these two are able to curb this nightmarish hell of global warming. Best of luck to them.

[lonestarnot]

2. And green jobs?