Topic - John P. Holdren

• Scientific exchanges with China broke law

  Obama administration officials broke the law by holding science and technology exchanges with Beijing contrary to legislation banning such cooperation, members of Congress and congressional auditors said Wednesday.

• Bush science adviser John H. Marburger dies at 70

  The White House science adviser to President George W. Bush, John H. Marburger III, has died. He was 70.

• Bush science adviser John W. Marburger dies at 70

  The White House science adviser to President George W. Bush, John W. Marburger III, has died. He was 70.

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  Wolf: Technology shared too freely with China

  A senior House Republican wants to hold the Obama administration accountable for what he says are violations of law limiting the sharing of space technology with China.

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  GRIFFIN & VAN CLEAVE: Working with China opens door to espionage

  It was an awkward moment, to say the least. Testifying before a House Appropriations subcommittee, President Obama's science adviser, John P. Holdren, was describing the Obama administration's ongoing discussions with China to develop joint space projects.

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  EDITORIAL: Tornadoes spinning global warming

  This year is seeing one of the worst tornado seasons in decades, and speculation is rampant about whether climate change is involved. When the dust settles, it's obvious that the rolling collapse of the case for global warming has forced alarmists to argue that even without scientific evidence, the risk is too great to reach any other conclusion.

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  MURRAY: Politicized science costs us all

  After a 21-month delay, White House science adviser John Holdren has finally issued a four-page memo on scientific integrity in government. The guidelines demonstrate an intractable dichotomy between the needs of government and the needs of science. Therefore, it is time to erect a wall of separation between science and state.

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  Gov't says full-body scanners at airports are safe

  They look a little like giant refrigerators and pack a radiation dose big enough to peer through clothing for bombs or weapons, yet too minuscule to be harmful, federal officials insist. As the government rolls out hundreds more full-body scanners at airports just in time for crowds of holiday travelers, it is working to reassure the public that the machines are safe.

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  Government insists full-body scanners are safe

  They look a little like giant refrigerators and pack a radiation dose big enough to peer through clothing for bombs or weapons, yet too minuscule to be harmful, federal officials insist.

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  EDITORIAL: The climate crackup

  Switching terminology from "global warming" to "climate change" to newly favored "global climatic disruption" was supposed to help revive the environmental left's plunging poll numbers. It hasn't worked. Nature has, inconveniently, failed to cooperate, with dire predictions of upcoming catastrophes falling flat. Desperation pervades a propaganda effort that has finally gone too far.

• Scientists aren't spin doctors on climate

  Your editorial "Hedging on global warming" (Comment & Analysis, Monday) on science adviser John Holdren's suggestion that "climate disruption" more accurately reflects the consequences of overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide, ignored science and history.

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  EDITORIAL: Hedging on global warming

  In a season of rebranding, the White House has thrown the old "global warming" bugaboo under the bus in favor of a new propaganda campaign against so-called "global climate disruption." White House science adviser John P. Holdren, who has been promoting this term since at least 2007, calls "global warming" a "dangerous misnomer" that "implies something gradual, uniform and benign." According to his alarmist school, the world is facing a danger that is complex, chaotic and coming on fast.

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  EDITORIAL: Kagan's kiss of death

  Senators who vote to confirm Elena Kagan to the Supreme Court will need to answer this fall for ignoring legal ethics while contributing to the Obama administration's culture of death. Solicitor General Kagan acted unethically - while an aide to President Clinton and in testimony last week to the Senate Judiciary Committee - to promote the monstrosity known as partial-birth abortion.

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