Marxist Science Czar Holdren Wants to ‘Educate’ Climate Change Skeptics…
FreeThinkerNY
Weasel Zippers
1/30/2011
Arrogant Marxist thugs like Comrade Holdren would love to ‘educate’ the way Stalin did in the Soviet Union…
(The Hill) – President Obama’s top science adviser said there’s a need to “educate” GOP climate change skeptics on Capitol Hill as the White House seeks to advance its green energy agenda.
“It is an education problem. I think we have to educate them,” said John Holdren, who heads the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, in an interview broadcast Sunday.
Obama, in his State of the Union speech last week, called for deriving 80 percent of U.S. power from “clean” sources by 2035, and funding increased R&D of green electricity and fuels by repealing billions of dollars in oil industry tax breaks.
But the effort comes as a substantial number of GOP lawmakers, such as House Science, Space and Technology Committee Chairman Ralph Hall (R-Texas), are questioning climate science.
Holdren, asked about advancing Obama’s agenda in the face of skepticism, said the scientific evidence of dangerous human-induced climate change is powerful.
“The science of climate change is really very clear in its essentials,” Holdren said on Platts Energy Week.