In 2005 Gov. Romney chose very misguided Harvard guy John Holdren to advise him on global warming policy, the same Holdren appointed by Obama as Director of Science and Technology policy or Science Czar.
- From a 12/7/2005 Romney press release:
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In 2003 Romney appeared with activists at a coal plant and said the coal plant "kills people:"
10/7/11, "Mitt Romney’s Troubling Appointments," RedState.com, Streiff
"In 2003, Romney chose a hard core environmental activist to be Secretary of Commonwealth Development. In this position he was charged with developing a scheme to restrict “greenhouse gas” emissions. According to the Wall Street Journal:
Just days after his 2002 election, Mr. Romney hired Douglas Foy, one of the state’s most prominent environmental activists, and put him in charge of supervising four state agencies. … With Mr. Foy by his side, Mr. Romney joined activists outside an aging, coal-fired plant in 2003 to show his commitment to the emissions caps. “I will not create jobs or hold jobs that kill people, and that plant, that plant kills people,” he said.
But when it became obvious that he would not win reelection as governor, Romney set his sights on the GOP presidential nomination. In remaking himself he repudiated his own secretary carrying out his own plan.
Significantly, two of Romney’s appointments have how found a home in the Obama White House.
Gina McCarthy, the chief EPA clean air regulator, also worked as an environmental regulator for then-Governor Romney. Her role now is as point guard (nyuk) in the Obama Administrations fight to make coal fired electric generating plants extinct....
Another Romney environmental adviser in the effort to regulate “greenhouse gases” is now Obama’s Director of Science and Technology Policy, John Holdren. Dr. Holdren has some exotic views:
President Obama’s “science czar,” John Holdren, once floated the idea of forced abortions, “compulsory sterilization,” and the creation of a “Planetary Regime” that would oversee human population levels and control all natural resources as a means of protecting the planet — controversial ideas his critics say should have been brought up in his Senate confirmation hearings.
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Those plans include forcing single women to abort their babies or put them up for adoption; implanting sterilizing capsules in people when they reach puberty; and spiking water reserves and staple foods with a chemical that would make people sterile.
To help achieve those goals, they formulate a “world government scheme” they call the Planetary Regime, which would administer the world’s resources and human growth, and they discuss the development of an “armed international organization, a global analogue of a police force” to which nations would surrender part of their sovereignty.
Holdren has gone to some lengths to repudiate those views but one has to question “confirmation conversions.”"...
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9/29/10, "White House science advisor Holdren’s climate slide show at Kavli," Anthony Watts, Watt's up with that
"Via Eurekalert -Public Release: 28-Sep-2010"
"John P. Holdren addresses climate change, stressing need for international cooperation
At the 2010 Kavli Prize Science Forum, John Holdren, science advisor to US President Barack Obama, detailed the need and efforts to mitigate “global climate disruption.” The complete presentation, as well as a transcript of the address, is available at www.kavlifoundation.org.
TRANSCRIPT AND SLIDES"...
(In Sept. 2010 Holdren stated that nothing in the 2007 UN IPCC report had been 'called into question.' That is of course completely false. ed.)
(Scroll to "Slide 18"): "[SLIDE 18] So do we have good reason to believe that humans are causing this (global warming) primarily? Yes, we do. This is the IPCC’s assessment in the 2007 report. No part of this has been called into question by the way."...
- He references Russian fires during the summer in 2010 being due to man-caused global warming. This is another falsehood and easy to check. It has already been stated the Russian fires were entirely due to natural causes. NOAA documentation posted below.
"[SLIDE 23] Wildfires. Wildfires in the western United States up about six-fold in the last 30 years. Similar trends in other fire-prone regions, including this summer of course in Russia among other areas."...
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This is a NOAA government document that believes in global warming but explains in detail why the "Russia fires" had nothing to do with it and were due to natural causes:
9/3/2010, "The Russian Heat Wave of 2010," NOAA, Earth System Research Laboratory
(para. 10): "Whereas an event of this magnitude was unexpected for the summer of 2010, and indeed there was little if any advance warming from long lead seasonal forecasts, it is nonetheless important to assess the factors that may have been responsible for such an extreme heat wave. There is strong evidence that the immediate cause can be placed at the doorstep of an extreme pattern of atmospheric winds—widely referred to as blocking. In the situation of anticyclonic blocking such as developed over western Russia in early July 2010, the normal west-to-east movement of weather systems is inhibited, with the center of a blocking experiencing persistently quiescent weather.
Blocks are not an uncommon occurrence over Eurasia in summer, with a episodes of July blocking in the region between 0-60ºE evident during the past half century (Figure 5). This region is vulnerable to episodes of blocking owing to physical factors related to the region's location downstream of the Atlantic westerly jet....
The extreme surface warmth over western Russia during July and early August is mostly a product of the strong and persistent blocking high. Surface temperatures soared as a result of the combination of clear skies, sinking motion within the environment of the high pressure causing compressional heating of air, the lack of any temporary relief owing to the blocking of the typical cold fronts that cool the region intermittently in summer. Add to this scenario the cumulative effect of drought that began in early summer which caused soils to dry and plants to desiccate to wilting point, thereby causing additional surface warming via land feedbacks as the blocking condition persisted. These are all well-known and studied physical processes that have accompanied summertime
- blocking and heat waves in the past."...
The above are just 2 examples from Holdren's Sept. 2010 presentation.
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Holdren NY Times op-ed against climate 'deniers'
8/4/2008, "Convincing the skeptics," NY Times Opinion by John Holdren
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Appointed Obama's Science Czar March 2009
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