Obama Science Adviser John Holdren: Global warming now means ‘more frequent cold snaps’

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Flashback: Holdren ‘desperately needs remedial climate science education!’ Holdren ridiculed for claiming Arctic could be ICE FREE IN WINTER! This is who Romney seeks climate advice from?! Scientist Ridicules John Holdren: He ‘appears to have less scientific competence than most 1st graders’ — John Holdren in 2009: ‘If you lose the summer [Arcitc] sea ice,there are phenomena that could lead you not so very long thereafter to lose the winter sea ice as well. And if you lose that sea ice year round,it’s going to mean drastic climatic change all over the hemisphere.’

1975: Holdren Says Real Threat to USA Is Cheap Energy: ‘The U.S.is threatened far more by the hazards of too much energy, too soon, than by the hazards of too little energy, too late.’

Keep Your Eco-Wacko Ideas Off Our Testicles! 1969: Ehrlich & Holdren Promote vasectomies to fight off ‘misery’ of overpopulation

‘Paul Ehrlich was John Holdren’s close scientific partner. John Holdren is Obama’s science advisor. Paul Ehrlich proposed mass poisoning of water and food supplies in 1969′

John Lennon from the grave makes scientific chumps out of John Holdren & Paul Ehrlich! Flashback Lennon in 1970′s: ‘I don’t believe in overpopulation. It is a myth’

Relax: Laugh at silly predictions of overpopulation: Climate Depot’s Factsheet on Overpopulation – ‘Is too few people the new ‘population problem?’

Oops! Obama Science ‘Czar’ John Holdren’s 1971 warning: A ‘New Ice Age’ likely

Paper: ‘Holdren has spoken in favor of such things as forced abortions, confiscation of babies, mass involuntary sterilization, bureaucratic regulation of family size…’ ‘…& a planetary regime to enforce climate regulation and population control’

Flashback: Climate Depot’s Round up of Eco-Wacko ‘Science’ Czar John Holdren claims

Flashback: Holdren Says He Would Use ‘Free Market’ to ‘De-Develop the United States’ — Defends Paul Ehrlich’s silly claims

Flashback: Holdren: Trees Should Be Allowed to Sue in Court — Giving ‘natural objects’ — like trees — standing to sue in a court of law would have a ‘most salubrious’ effect on the environment

He finally got one right! John Holdren Forecast That He Would Be Discredited! Holdren and Paul Ehrlich in 1971: ‘We have been warned by our more cautious colleagues that those who discuss threats of sociological and ecological disaster run the risk of being ‘discredited’ if those threats fail to materialize on schedule’

Romney’s John Holdren Problem: John Holdren? Population-control-John Holdren? Mitt, you have

Flashback: John Holdren in 1971: ‘New ice age’ likely

John Holdren in 1971: “New ice age” likely

Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 1:53 pm

In 1971, John Holdren edited and contributed an essay to a book entitled Global Ecology: Readings Toward a Rational Strategy for Man. He wrote (along with colleague Paul Ehrlich) the book’s sixth chapter, called “Overpopulation and the Potential for Ecocide.” (Click here to view a photograph of the table of contents, showing Holdren’s essay on pages 64-78; click on the image to the left to view the cover.) In their chapter, Holdren and Ehrlich speculate about various environmental catastrophes, and on pages 76 and 77 Holdren the climate scientist speaks about the probable likelihood of a “new ice age” caused by human activity (air pollution, dust from farming, jet exhaust, desertification, etc.).Below is a direct scan from pages 76-77 in the book Global Ecology, with an exact transcription on the right.(Following this section, scroll down to see the extended passage from which this quote was taken, with more context and more discussion.)John Holdren is now not only the “Science Czar” for the United States, but he’s also one of the original leaders of the “alarmist” wing of the Global Warming debate — and he now promotes the notion that the current climate data points to a looming planetary overheating catastrophe of unimaginable dimensions. (He helped make the charts and graphs for Al Gore’s film An Inconvenient Truth, for example.)My personal opinion is that Holdren is a “doom peddler” who latches onto the nightmare-scenario-du-jour — overpopulation, nuclear holocaust, global cooling, global warming (all of which he’s trumpeted at various points in his career) — and then wildly exaggerates it in order to scare the public into adopting his politicized “solutions.”But I’ll let you read the following quote and decide for yourself how you feel about John Holdren’s predictions. (And make sure to read the extended passage below, for more insight.)

 It seems, however, that a competing effect has dominated the situation since 1940. This is the reduced transparency of the atmosphere to incoming light as a result of urban air pollution (smoke, aerosols), agricultural air pollution (dust), and volcanic ash. This screening phenomenon is said to be responsible for the present world cooling trend—a total of about .2°C in the world mean surface temperature over the past quarter century. This number seems small until it is realized that a decrease of only

Climatologist Cliff Harris: ‘The claims that greenhouse warming causes more cold waves like we have seen this week really seems to be without any basis in observational evidence or in theory. The media needs to stop pushing this unsupported argument’

Harris: The recent work by Professor Elizabeth Barnes of Colorado State has shown that there were methodological deficiencies in the research suggesting increased jet undulations with global warming. And that there is no observational evidence of increased waviness.  Furthermore, there is little evidence that the jet approaching North America has weakened recently.  The IPCC, the global group of scientists that have come together to estimate the impacts of increased greenhouse gases, have been clear about their conclusions: “There is likely to be a decline in the frequency of cold air outbreaks (i.e., periods of extreme cold lasting from several days to over a week) in NH winter in most areas.”

Just to illustrate that extremes are NOT increasing in the U.S., NOAA maintains a Climate Extreme Index (CEI) that includes many parameters.   Here is a plot of that index for winter for the last century for North America.  No trend.

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