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climateprogress.org - 4/10/2009

Semi-exclusive: Science Adviser Holdren stands by his long-standing critique of geoengineering

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Seth Borenstein of the AP caused a volcanic eruption yesterday with his interview of science adviser John Holdren, “ Obama looking at cooling air to fight warming .” Too bad the story isn’t quite accurate, as Holdren confirmed in an e-mail to me today and a separate email to ...

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dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com - 4/9/2009

Science Adviser Lays Out Climate and Energy Plans

— dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com — Keith Srakocic/Associated Press John Holdren, the White House science adviser. John Holdren, President Obama's science adviser, began... speaking to the media on Wednesday for the first time. The Associated Press emphasized some statements he made in ... (more) Science Adviser Lays Out Climate and Energy Plans

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google.com - 4/9/2009

The Associated Press: Obama looking at cooling air to fight warming

— google.com — 1 day ago WASHINGTON (AP) Tinkering with Earth's climate to chill runaway global warming a radical idea... once dismissed out of hand is being discussed by the White House as a potential emergency option, the president's new science adviser said ... (more) The Associated Press: Obama looking at cooling air to ...

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greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com - 4/15/2009

Obama Energy Chief Discusses Climate

— greeninc.blogs.nytimes.com — At a conference at MIT, Carol Browner said that carbon legislation would significantly strengthen the administration's position... in negotiating a new climate treaty at Copenhagen. (more) Obama Energy Chief Discusses Climate

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Semi-exclusive: Science Adviser Holdren stands by his long-standing critique of geoengineering
The Energy Collective — ... impacts we face on our current emissions path and a near certain understanding of how mitigation is the wisest and safest response. I will blog more on this later. Geoengineering, adaptation and mitigation, Part 2: White roofs are the trillion-dollar solution Memo to DARPA, Pentagon: Stay out of geoengineering — aka climate manipulation! So much for geoengineering, Part 1: Avoiding the Frankenplanet ...

Who is the National Commission on Energy Policy and why are they trying to weaken — not strengthen — the climate bill?
The Energy Collective — ... and at end — original co-chair John Holdren has since moved on to greener pastures).  I know many of the grises and actually ended up writing two background reports for NCEP — ...

New book ‘SuperFreakonomics’ pushes global-cooling myths, sheer illogic, and ‘patent nonsense’
Grist - the Latest from Grist — ... would be in incompletely unexplored territory—what I call an experimental chemotherapy and radiation therapy combined.  There is no possible way of predicting the long-term effect of the thick stratospheric haze (which, unlike GHGs, has no recent or paleoclimate analog).  If it turned out to have unexpected catastrophic impacts of its own (other than drought), we’d be totally screwed. No surprise, then, that science advisor John Holdren told me in April that he stands by his critique: The ‘geo-engineering’ approaches ...