WASHINGTON (AP) - President-elect Barack Obama's appointments
today seem to show he plans a more aggressive response to climate
change than the Bush administration did.
For two top science posts, he's tapped two advocates of
government action on global warming. Physicist John Holdren would
head the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and
marine scientist Jane Lubchenco will lead the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration.
Obama also says it's to "restore America's place as the world
leader in science and technology." He says promoting science means
more than just providing money. He says it's also about ensuring
that facts and evidence aren't twisted or obscured by politics or
ideology.
Lubchenco would be the first woman to head NOAA. She says she's
looking forward to a new administration that will take science into
account when making environmental policies.
Holdren is also tapped to direct the president's Council of
Advisers on Science and Technology. Joining him as co-chairs will
be Nobel Prize-winning scientist Harold Varmus and Massachusetts
Institute of Technology professor Eric Lander, a specialist in
human genome research.
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Published: December 20, 2008
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