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[Physics Today - Politics and Policy] President-elect Barack Obama's nominations of a number of ...: After beginning his career as a plasma physics researcher, Holdren moved into the science policy arena, where he has specialized in energy, climate change, and arms control issues. He was a member of the president's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in the Clinton administration, and is also a past president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).

[Science News / Features, Blog Entries, Column Entries, Issues, News Items and Book Reviews / Body & Brain] Science News / Science Stimulus: And we’ve been yammering at each other as a nation for 10 years about global climate change while the votes [in Congress to do something about it] have basically stayed essentially locked.” To Grumet, the question was “not only who gets in [as president], but, in fact, who can get it done,” he says. Obama pledged to reduce the nation’s carbon footprint, but also recognized, Grumet says, that meeting this commitment while also facing the energy challenge is “not like any problem that we’ve faced before.”

[Physics Today - Politics and Policy] Holdren appointment confirms Obama's climate change focus ...: President Barack Obama chose a physicist who has specialized in science policy to become his science adviser and director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). John Holdren, who has run the science, technology, and public policy program at Harvard University's Belfer Center since 1996, also worked as a theoretical plasma physicist at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

[Energy & Enviro Finland News] US President-elect boosts climate issues by top nominations: U.S. President-elect Barack Obama underscored on today his intent to push initiatives on climate change by naming John Holdren, an energy and climate specialist, as the new White House science adviser, writes Reuters.

[Electric Cost Monitoring] Wind turbines in Australia: Cost of Inaction: Economic Implications of Climate Change for Water Resources Management in Texas – Focusing on the Trinity river basin, analyzes Integrated Water Resources Management from a broad perspective, the potential impacts from an altered hydrologic regime, and impacts on urban and rural water supply and sanitation, industry, agriculture, and environmental flows.

[Breakthrough Generation] Climate Policy in the Age of Obama: Among the nominees is Energy Secretary-designate Steven Chu, a Nobel-winning physicist and advocate for alternative energy. Chu underscored his concern about climate change and the need for energy efficiency in Senate testimony on .

[FRC Blog] Change Watch Backgrounder: Carol Browner (FRC Blog): "Until last week, Carol M. Browner, President-elect Barack Obama's pick as global warming czar, was listed as one of 14 leaders of a socialist group's Commission for a Sustainable World Society, which calls for "global governance" and says rich countries must shrink their economies to address climate change.

[Gristmill] A new Lisa on life | Gristmill: The environmental news blog | Grist: Concerning mercury poisoning at a preschool operating in a former thermometer factory in the state, Jackson said it "was a tragedy" that she wished had been taken care of sooner, but asserted that her department worked as quickly as possible on the problem, which predated her tenure.

[Breakthrough] Breakthrough: Climate Policy in the Age of Obama: Among the nominees is Energy Secretary-designate Steven Chu, a Nobel-winning physicist and advocate for alternative energy. Chu underscored his concern about climate change and the need for energy efficiency in Senate testimony on January 13.

[Climate Change] Climate Change » Blog Archive » Obama's Team: The good news is that nearly everybody in leadership positions from the President to his top officials to Senate and House leaders and their committee chairs all seem to be in accord , on the urgency of climate change, the need to transition to a low-carbon world, and to boost the economy by making it more energy efficient across the board and by weaning us from the dire environmental problems caused or exacerbated by fossil fuel use.

[Physics Today - Politics and Policy] Obama, Chu and Clinton receive advice on nuclear weapons and ...: Two candidates for the Obama cabinet, Steven Chu for the Department of Energy, and Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) at State, will receive their Senate confirmation hearings later today. Chu is likely to receive advice and questions from the Senate over the direction of the Energy department, including questions over the consolidation of the nuclear weapons complex onto one site, while Clinton is expected to receive questioning over the direction Obama will take in international arms control in light of a decade in which India, Pakistan and North Korea have tested nuclear weapons, and the upcoming review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferaiton Treaty (NPT) next year.

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