All that Global Warming?

It is being re-branded and is now known as: "Global Climate Disruption" From FOX News:

White House: Global Warming Out, 'Global Climate Disruption' In
From the administration that brought you "man-caused disaster" and "overseas contingency operation," another terminology change is in the pipeline.

The White House wants the public to start using the term "global climate disruption" in place of "global warming" -- fearing the latter term oversimplifies the problem and makes it sound less dangerous than it really is.

White House science adviser John Holdren urged people to start using the phrase during a speech last week in Oslo, echoing a plea he made three years earlier. Holdren said global warming is a "dangerous misnomer" for a problem far more complicated than a rise in temperature.

John Holdren... Hmmmm... He co-authored a book: ECOSCIENCE: POPULATION, RESOURCES, ENVIRONMENT the text of which can be found here. Use the online reader to search for "Malthus" and you will get the following page hits: 379, 731, 741, 742, 743, 791, 792, 797, 800, 801, 878, 889, 898, 950, 1017. Regular readers will know just how stupid I think Malthusian thinking is. It has never been proven right and one of the key proponents lost a ten year wager to one of the key thinkers and skeptics. There has never been a Malthusian prediction that has come true. That includes the "peak oil" scare of a few years ago. And the guy that lost the wager? He was one of the co-authors on Holdren's book... Back to Holdren -- I'll let Zombie bring up a few points:

John Holdren, Obama's Science Czar, says: Forced abortions and mass sterilization needed to save the planet
Forced abortions. Mass sterilization. A "Planetary Regime" with the power of life and death over American citizens.

The tyrannical fantasies of a madman? Or merely the opinions of the person now in control of science policy in the United States? Or both?

These ideas (among many other equally horrifying recommendations) were put forth by John Holdren, whom Barack Obama has recently appointed Director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, Assistant to the President for Science and Technology, and Co-Chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology -- informally known as the United States' Science Czar. In a book Holdren co-authored in 1977, the man now firmly in control of science policy in this country wrote that:

� Women could be forced to abort their pregnancies, whether they wanted to or not;
� The population at large could be sterilized by infertility drugs intentionally put into the nation's drinking water or in food;
� Single mothers and teen mothers should have their babies seized from them against their will and given away to other couples to raise;
� People who "contribute to social deterioration" (i.e. undesirables) "can be required by law to exercise reproductive responsibility" -- in other words, be compelled to have abortions or be sterilized.
� A transnational "Planetary Regime" should assume control of the global economy and also dictate the most intimate details of Americans' lives -- using an armed international police force.

Impossible, you say? That must be an exaggeration or a hoax. No one in their right mind would say such things.

Well, I hate to break the news to you, but it is no hoax, no exaggeration. John Holdren really did say those things, and this report contains the proof. Below you will find photographs, scans, and transcriptions of pages in the book Ecoscience, co-authored in 1977 by John Holdren and his close colleagues Paul Ehrlich and Anne Ehrlich. The scans and photos are provided to supply conclusive evidence that the words attributed to Holdren are unaltered and accurately transcribed.

So when you listen to Obama's Science Adviser, remember that he is carrying around a large quantity of political baggage, the majority of which has no basis in Scientific Fact.