President Obama decided early on he couldn’t be the eyes and ears of the entire planet.  So, he took on peeps to do it for him and gave them the lofty title of “czar”.  Now, just for an aside, the term “czar”:

1. an emperor or king.
2. the former emperor of Russia.
3. an autocratic ruler or leader. 
4. any person exercising great authority or power in a particular field: a czar of industry.

Now, I know #4 is what presidential administration czars do.  But, with this administration so far, it seems to be #3 serving #1.  Given that bias, it would probably make my concerns about Obama’s science czar more understandable.  I wrote about John Holdren on April 9th.  He’s under the impression that global warming is already so dire, we should consider shooting particulates into the atmosphere to grow more clouds.  That’s not a terribly whacky idea.  Probably wouldn’t work tho.  However, as we’ve gotten a chance to get to know John better, some of his other ideas are becoming the source of fodder.  In 1977, Holdren teamed up with Paul Erlich, author of The Population Bomb, to pen a tome called Ecoscience: Population, Resources, Environment.  In this book, The Erlichs and Holdren toss out several ideas to deal with the population explosion they felt was endangering the welfare of the planet:

• 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.

Now, as crazy as this might seem, a lot of people believe in the New World Order.  The key intention of the New World Order is to reduce the world’s population by about 5.5 billion or so.  However, given the rate of growth of the world’s population, that probably needs to be about 6.5 billion if adjusted for inflation.  All of this sounds kinda crazy don’t it?  Well, it just gets better.

Yes, the ruling about that surprised me. [Harris v. McRae — in 1980 the court upheld the Hyde Amendment, which forbids the use of Medicaid for abortions.] Frankly I had thought that at the time Roe was decided, there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion. Which some people felt would risk coercing women into having abortions when they didn’t really want them. But when the court decided McRae, the case came out the other way. And then I realized that my perception of it had been altogether wrong.

Without the full context, which you can read following the link, this might seem a little fuzzy.  In essence, this person felt that Medicaid paying for abortions was a good form of population control of the lower class, and therefore was legal and should always be.  When Harris vs McRae upheld banning Medicaid funding for abortions, this person realized that her perception of Medicaid abortion funding had been wrong.  It was never intended to be a form of birth control for the lower class, it was an individual decision.  The person that was perfectly OK with government funded abortions being a form of lower class birth control is Ruth Ann Ginsburg, a justice to the Supreme Court.

Still think it can’t get any crazier?  Of course it can:

Have you ever seen a Commie drink a glass of water? Vodka, that’s what they drink, isn’t it? Never water? On no account will a Commie ever drink water, and not without good reason.  Water, that’s what I’m getting at, water. Mandrake, water is the source of all life. Seven-tenths of this earth’s surface is water. Why, do you realize that seventy percent of you is water? And as human beings, you and I need fresh, pure water to replenish our precious bodily fluids. Are you beginning to understand? Mandrake. Mandrake, have you never wondered why I drink only distilled water, or rain water, and only pure-grain alcohol? Have you ever heard of a thing called fluoridation. Fluoridation of water? Well, do you know what it is? Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?

That of course was spoken by Sterling Hayden.  You can breathe a small sigh of relief because unlike the previous two, Sterling Hayden was a fictional character from the movie Dr. Strangelove.  This was a most excellent movie that basically was a scenario where a bunch of lunatics in both the presidential administration and the military accidentally convince an air force bomber that a nuclear war has broken out and they accidentally nuke Moscow.  As crazy as the plot to that movie is, it’s hard to tell the third quote from the previous two.

Once the perceived threat of overpopulation lost it’s moxie, of course, the imminent ice age became the threat.  That didn’t last too long before global warming became the alarm du jour.  Holdren was all over that one too.  Among other predictions, Holdren predicted the oceans would rise thirteen feet globally by 2010.  Unless the oceans rise, oh, thirteen feet in the next five months, he’ll be about as wrong as a person could get.  Even the most pessemistic predictions at this time don’t support anything close to what Holdren predicted:

The U.N.’s climate change panel may be severely underestimating the sea-level rise caused by global warming, climate scientists said on Monday, calling for swift cuts in greenhouse emissions.

“The sea-level rise may well exceed one meter (3.28 feet) by 2100 if we continue on our path of increasing emissions,” said Stefan Rahmstorf, professor at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. “Even for a low emission scenario, the best estimate is about one meter.”

There’s so much more.  MasterResource took a stab at some of John Holdren’s claims:

Giving society cheap energy at this point would be equivalent to giving an idiot child a machine gun.

–  Paul Ehrlich, “An Ecologist’s Perspective on Nuclear Power,” Federal Academy of Science Public Issue Report, May-June 1975, p. 5.

We can be reasonably sure … that within the next quarter of a century mankind will be looking elsewhere than in oil wells for its main source of energy. … We can also be reasonably sure that the search for alternatives will be a frantic one.

–  Paul and Anne Ehrlich, The End of Affluence, Rivercity Press,
Riverside, MA, 1974, 1975, p. 49.

Many of the conservation measures temporarily undertaken when the mini-crisis was in its acute stage – lowered speed limits, car-pools, reset thermostats, etc. – should be instituted on a permanent basis … In the long run, energy should be made expensive, especially for large users, as an incentive to conservation (emphasis added).

–  Ehrlich and Ehrlich, The End of Affluence, op. cit., p. 48.

Laws may well be passed strictly limiting the number of appliances a single family may possess.

– Paul Ehrlich and Richard Harriman, How to Be a Survivor, 
Rivercity Press, Rivercity, MA, 1971, 1975, p. 69.

Unnecessary lighting in offices and factories should … be banned.

–  Ehrlich and Ehrlich, The End of Affluence, p. 226.

It should immediately be made illegal to construct a building with windows which cannot be opened.

–  Ehrlich and Harriman, How to Be a Survivor, pp. 73–74.

Completely frivolous uses of power, such as gas yard lamps that are permanently lit, should be outlawed altogether.

–  Ehrlich and Ehrlich, The End of Affluence, p. 227.

If you look into John Holdren’s bio, he has a long and distinguished career with many titles and stuff.  So, I really gotta wonder two things.

1. Why is he always so incredibly wrong?
2. Why would someone who’s got such a history of being not so much wrong, but amazingly wrong, be appointed the highest science position of authority in the land?

I can only offer two reasons:

1. Holdren, Ginsburg, and Obama are most definitely members of the New World Order ( Illuminati ), or
2. Obama’s political agenda trumped all else, including established science.

You can make your own decision,  I’ve obviously already made mine.

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