Weird (Environmental) Science

John Holdren was recently appointed as the Science and Technology Advisor to the President. While his fields of study were aeronautics and astronuautics, this space cadet decided his academic background qualified him to be an expert on environmental issues. Why is it that most of the proponents for global warming are physicists as opposed to climatologists and meteorologists? Like his fellow environmentalist, wack-job scientists, he has a rather ho-hum academic record - no ground-breaking research in his major field of study, mediocre research papers filled policy opinions and fuzzy data (if any). Most of his career has been in positions rife with political administrivia. Some of his non-peer-reviewed research paper titles:

• "Meeting the Climate-Change Challenge." The John H. Chafee Memorial Lecture, National Council for Science and the Environment, Washington, D.C., January 17, 2008.
• "Global Climatic Disruption: Risks and Opportunities." Presentation at Investor Summit on Climate Risk, New York, February 14, 2008.
• "Ending the Energy Stalemate: A Bipartisan Strategy To Meet America's Energy Challenges." Presentation at the National Academies 2008 Energy Summit, Washington, D.C., March 14, 2008.

...oh yeah...really serious research, hard science. To be fair, he has previous experience as a science advisor. He was a technical advisor to Al Gore on his documentary "An Inconvenient Truth." Oh yeah, he did a great job of keeping the science on track in that POS. His scraggy beard and pompous demeanor give the impression of a religious leader of a kook religious cult...and his opinions are not far from those of some wack-job cult leader. He proposes the forced sterilization of women and the revising of society and economics against the will of the people. He should have stayed in outer space where he started out his career.