all John Holdren stories

For science adviser, dogged work against global perils

404132862 — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 08:56:21 -0500

John P. Holdren named President-elect Obama’s Science Advisor

404132862 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 12:13:59 -0500

President-elect Barack Obama today announced that he has selected Harvard’s John P. Holdren to serve as Assistant to the President for Science and Technology in the new administration. The post, popularly known as “the President’s science advisor,” also includes directorship of the Office of Science and Technology Policy in the Executive Office of the President and requires Senate confirmation.

John Holdren to advise Obama on science, reports say

404132862 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:55:34 -0500

A strong voice on CO2 as science adviser

404132862 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:53:32 -0500

Obama chooses Harvard physicist

404132862 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 11:52:06 -0500

Harvard experts help sort out U.S. energy future

50443248 — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 10:08:22 -0400

John F. Kennedy School of Government energy experts testified to the U.S. Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee this month (March 10) on ways to use clean coal technology to make coal a more acceptable part of the United States' future energy mix and to ease a natural gas shortage that is driving energy prices skyward.
The new technology could answer two major criticisms of coal: that it's a source of pollutants such as sulfur dioxide and mercury, and that it's a source of carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas implicated in human-caused global warming.

Polar bear research shows global warming is real

70652986 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 05:05:12 -0400

Harvard Professor James McCarthy was among a handful of top scientists who coordinated a remarkable report by the world scientific community in 2001 that said global warming is real, it's here, and it's going to be worse than we thought. "We already see effects that [indicate] the change in climate has occurred," said McCarthy, who co-chairs one of three working groups of the United Nation's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). "And the projection of some of those [effects] into the future are not a pretty scene." John Holdren, Heinz Professor of Environmental Policy at Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government, credited the IPCC with largely ending the debate over whether human-induced climate change is happening.