by Jonathan Harrington
11. December 2008 01:01
According to press reports, President-Elect Barak Obama will appoint Nobel Prize winning physicist Stephen Chu as Secretary of Energy. Chu, who is currently Director of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), is a long time advocate of science based approaches to addressing global climate change. Dr. Chu has also spearheaded efforts to make LBNL "the world leader in alternative and renewable energy research, particularly the development of carbon-neutral sources of energy." Other newly announced members of the Obama team include former Clinton Administration EPA Administrator Carol Browner, who will take on a newly created White House post that will oversee energy and environmental policy.Clearly, change is afoot in America. It is high time that the ideologues that have harassed the Federal government scientific community for the past 8 years find a new line of work.
