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President Obama wants to emphasize science so he chose Carol Browner for his
“Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change.” Browner’s career is
not as a climate scientist but an attorney who ran the EPA during the Clinton
Administration, so she does not represent “change.”
She also put in a stint with the Socialist International. The 170 members include
parties like the Democratic Socialists of America, Canada’s New Democratic Party
(NDP), Nicaragua’s Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), the Mongolian
People’s Revolutionary Party (MPRP), the Radical Social Democratic Party (PRSD) of
Chile, and many others.
Carol Browner was one of 14 leaders of this commission. The Obama transition team
knew about Browner’s stint with the Socialist International, but recommended her
anyway. Conveniently, Browner’s post does not require confirmation. One can only
conclude that the Obama administration agrees with Browner’s Socialist
International approach, at some odds with the facts.
In December, when much of the country was experiencing extreme cold, the U.S.
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee released a minority staff report
with statements from many scientists skeptical of climate-change orthodoxy.
Environmental physical chemist Dr. Kiminori Itoh says that warming fears are the
“worst scientific scandal.” The report also cites Ivar Giaver, a Nobel laureate in
physics, who says “I am a skeptic . . . Global warming has become a new religion.”
Dr. Joanne Simpson, PhD in meteorology and formerly of NASA, says that “As a
scientist I remain skeptical. The main basis of the claim that man’s release of
greenhouse gases is the cause of the warming is based almost entirely upon climate
models. We all know the frailty of models concerting the air-surface system.”
“I am convinced that the current alarm over carbon dioxide is mistaken,” explains
Dr. Will Happer, professor of physics at Princeton and former director of energy
research at the Department of Energy. “Fears about man-made global warming are
unwarranted and are not based on good science,” Dr. Happer says in the report.
Those fears demonstrate fear for the regulatory, anti-enterprise, and anti-U.S.
approach championed by the Socialist International and Carol Browner.
Condensed from "Welcome to Watermelon Season" by K. Lloyd Billingsley, Editorial
Director, Pacific Research Institute Vol. 14 No. 5: February 4, 2009
media@pacificresearch.org
Don’t Call It “Stimulus”
So what should we call it? President Obama’s spending proposal? The deficit-
spending package? I think we’d have trouble getting the media to call it the Big
Boondoggle. Maybe the government bailout, following the Wall Street bailout and
the auto bailout?
Alas, we’re probably stuck debating the “stimulus.” But that means the battle was
half lost before it began. Cato at Liberty
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