Friday, February 18, 2011

Science Czar: Climate Change Skeptics Are 'Heretics' - Obama Czars - Fox Nation
(CNSNews.com) - President Obama's top science advisor, Dr. John Holdren, told a congressman asking about climate change skeptics that climate change is accepted science and that "there are always heretics" in the scientific community.
BBC News - John Holdren relishing Congress climate opportunity
Professor Holdren says he is relishing the opportunity.

"Any objective look at what science has to say about climate change ought to be sufficient to persuade reasonable people that the climate is changing and that humans are responsible for a substantial part of that - and that these changes are doing harm and will continue to do more harm unless we start to reduce our emissions.

"If Congress wants to have a series of hearings to illuminate these issues, they are going to get illuminated."
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"I'm not so sure there's a lot of new scepticism in the climate change debate," he said.

"People are seeing the impact of climate change around them in extraordinary patterns of floods and droughts, wildfires, heatwaves and powerful storms.

"I think it is going to be very hard to persuade people that climate change is somehow a fraud."

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