Posts about John Holdren Watch as of October 13, 2009

Any religion, meanwhile, has its heretics, and global warming is no exception. That staggeringly anti-scientific statement (page 170) is just one of many, many pieces of outright nonsense from SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance .  In fact, human-caused global warming is well-established science , far better established than any aspect of economics.

More members of Congress are talking about the need to increase NASA’s budget. But how much action is really taking place? On Friday Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), chair of the House Science and Technology Committee’s space subcommittee, reiterated her call for additional NASA funding in a presentation at the Sea Space Symposium in Washington.

White House science czar John Holdren has predicted 1 billion people will die in “carbon-dioxide induced famines” in a coming new ice age by 2020.

Ag Appropriations Approved by Congress, Goes to President — Both the House and Senate approved the agriculture appropriations conference report this week, making it the second funding bill to go to President Barack Obama for his signature.USDA Officially Launches New Agricultural Research Institute — USDA officially launched the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) this week with speeches from Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack and Assistant to the President for Science and Technology

Snarking, whatever you want to call it. Let us now look at an Obama appointee . And his gay NAMBLA bullshit, and Obama’s support. I, as I’ve said about color, national origin, etc, do not care about your sexuality. So long as you follow the law, do your job, and leave me alone to go home at the end of the day unless I want to go have a beer with you. Don’t force your agenda on me, we’re fine.

The Sloan Digital Sky Survey is one of the most ambitious and successful astronomical surveys ever performed. It has left an impact far and wide, ranging from asteroids to cosmology. As Sean has mentioned , the SDSS would have been impossible without optical fibers and CCDs, and this year’s Nobel Prize in Physics acknowledges the development of these technologies. The SDSS would also have been impossible without Jim Gunn. President Obama yesterday conferred The National Medal of Science to Jim Gunn, as well as 8 other scientists .

If, in the coming days and weeks, you start getting an odd feeling that a bunch of strangers are praying for you, it might be because they are, now that Liberty Counsel has officially rolled out its Adopt A Liberal effort : Liberty Counsel has launched a new program called Adopt a Liberal™. The program encourages people to pray for those in leadership to restore poor leaders to right thinking.

Holdren warned of coming ice age WorldNetDaily | Oct 6, 2009 By Jerome R. Corsi What is clear from the record going back over nearly four decades is that White House science czar John Holdren is a climate alarmist, even if he can’t make up his mind whether the crisis is the Earth warming up or cooling down. But long before Holdren was the global warming Cassandra he is today, he was a global cooling alarmist predicting a new ice age.

What is clear from the record going back over nearly four decades is that White House science czar John Holdren is a climate alarmist, even if he can’t make up his mind whether the crisis is the Earth warming up or cooling down. But long before Holdren was the global warming Cassandra he is today, he was a global cooling alarmist predicting a new ice age . The only consistency seems to be that Holdren has always utilized climate hysteria to argue that government must mandate public policy measures to prevent imminent and otherwise unavoidable climate catastrophes.

Speaking of strange pitches we get at Bilerico , here’s Jerry Falwell’s Liberty Council trying to prove that they’re still relevant even after the teabaggers took the rightwing over from the Religious Right establishment. They made a page where you can adopt a “liberal” and pray for him or her. Only 2 out of the 11 people whose views they want you to pray to change are Jewish (and one secret Jew ), so it’s progress for these folks. Only one’s gay (and one secret gay ), but don’t think they’ve forgotten about us.

October 5, 2009Liberty Counsel Unveils the Adopt a Liberal™ Prayer ProgramLiberty Counsel has launched a new program called Adopt a Liberal™. This program encourages people to pray for those in leadership to restore poor leaders to right thinking.The Adopt a Liberal prayer-in-action program is based on the words of the Apostle Paul to Timothy to pray for “all who are in authority, that we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and reverence.” I Timothy 2:1-3.We are urging you to pray daily for the liberal or liberals of your choice, so each can become a good influence on this Nation.See the list on our special Adopt a Liberal web page.