google.com - 4/9/2009
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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 Wednesday. That's because global warming is ...
huffingtonpost.com - 4/8/2009
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huffingtonpost.com —
WASHINGTON — The president's new science adviser said
that global warming is so dire, the Obama administration...
is discussing drastic options to cool Earth's air. John Holdren told The Associated Press in his first interview since being ...
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Obama Global Warming Plan Involves Cooling Air
dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com - 4/9/2009
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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 ...
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Science Adviser Lays Out Climate and Energy Plans
climateprogress.org - 4/10/2009
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climateprogress.org —
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 ...
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Semi-exclusive: Science Adviser Holdren stands by his ...
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Semi-exclusive: Science Adviser Holdren stands by his long-standing critique of geoengineering
Climate Progress —
... 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 others (that the NYT’s Revkin published ...
Semi-exclusive: Science Adviser Holdren stands by his long-standing critique of geoengineering
The Energy Collective —
... 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 others (that the NYT’s Revkin published ...
Will Obama’s Administration Be Stampeded into Geoengineering?
DeSmogBlog - Clearing the PR Pollution that Clouds Climate Science —
... President Barack Obama’s chief science advisor, John Holdren, in an April 8 AP interview, was reported suggesting that that geo-engineering might be viewed as an “emergency option” by the administration if global warming continues to worsen. ...
The Age of (small) Tradeoffs
Climate Progress —
... resolve some conflicts, for example locating new transmission lines along existing grid and highway corridors. But there will be trade-offs. They are inevitable.
In other cases, the trade-offs are not so easy to justify or accept. An example is the ever-exciting field of geo-engineering. Early in April during his first interview since confirmation, President Obama’s science advisor, John Holdren, became the victim of a blogosphere firestorm when he was misquoted in the New York Times as saying that geo-engineering schemes are being considered by the White House to ...
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