John P. Holdren
Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
Member of the Board (on leave), Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
June 9, 2003
Comments on the 2 June 2003 US Senate Republican Policy Committee document, ?The Shaky Science Behind the Climate Change Sense of the Congress Resolution?
Memorandum
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
1997
Defending the United States Against Weapons of Mass Destruction
Memorandum
By Graham Allison, Director, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs; Douglas Dillon Professor of Government, Harvard Kennedy School, Matthew Bunn, Associate Professor of Public Policy; Co-Principal Investigator, Project on Managing the Atom, Ashton B. Carter, Former Co-Director, Preventive Defense Project, Harvard & Stanford Universities, John M. Deutch, International Council Member, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Richard A. Falkenrath, Former Assistant Professor of Public Policy; Former Principal Investigator, Executive Session on Domestic Preparedness; Former Executive Director for Research, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program, Robert Newman, Former Research Fellow, International Security Program, 1995-1996 and Joseph S. Nye, Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor
Unpublished memorandum to the United States Senate
Fall 2004
"A Tribute to Harvey Brooks"
Newsletter Article, Belfer Center Newsletter
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
Harvey Brooks passed away at the age of 88 on May 28, 2004, at the home on Brewster Street in Cambridge that he shared with his wife Helen for more than fifty years. He was the Benjamin Peirce Professor of Technology and Public Policy, Emeritus, at the Kennedy School, the Gordon McKay Professor of Applied Physics, Emeritus, in Harvard's Division of Engineering and Applied Science, and the founder in 1976 and director until 1986 of the Program on Science, Technology, and Public Policy in the Kennedy School's Center for Science and International Affairs, today known as the Belfer Center.
January 11, 2013
"Expanding the Climate Change Conversation"
Op-Ed
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program and Jane Lubchenco
"...[A] committee of independent advisors to the U.S. Government released its first draft of a new National Climate Assessment (NCA)—a 400-page synthesis of scientists' current understanding of climate change and its impacts in the United States. The Global Change Research Act of 1990 calls for an NCA to be produced at least every four years—the last came out in 2009. The draft NCA is a scientific document—not a policy document—and does not make recommendations regarding actions that might be taken in response to climate change. Today is the first time the Government has been presented with this draft and the administration will be one of a number of entities that will begin the process of reviewing it. When completed about a year from now, however—after considerable inputs from the public and expert reviewers—it will represent the most thorough, rigorous, and transparent assessment ever of climate change and its U.S. impacts."
August 4, 2008
"Convincing the Climate-Change Skeptics"
Op-Ed, Boston Globe
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
"THE FEW climate-change "skeptics" with any sort of scientific credentials continue to receive attention in the media out of all proportion to their numbers, their qualifications, or the merit of their arguments. And this muddying of the waters of public discourse is being magnified by the parroting of these arguments by a larger population of amateur skeptics with no scientific credentials at all....The extent of unfounded skepticism about the disruption of global climate by human-produced greenhouse gases is not just regrettable, it is dangerous. It has delayed — and continues to delay — the development of the political consensus that will be needed if society is to embrace remedies commensurate with the challenge."
April 19, 2007
"Sea Change in the Politics of Climate"
Op-Ed, PostGlobal, A Conversation on Global Issues with David Ignatius and Fareed Zakaria
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program and Kelly Sims Gallagher, Senior Associate, Energy Technology Innovation Policy research group
Kelly Sims Gallagher and John P. Holdren weigh in on climate change on PostGlobal, a Newsweek- and Washington Post-sponsored online forum hosted by David Ignatius and Fareed Zakaria.
December 29, 2006
Climate Change: Expertise vs. Doubt
Op-Ed, Boston Globe, Letter to the Editor
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
Letter to the Editor of the Boston Globe in response to an Op-Ed by Jeff Jacoby.
April 25, 2005
Energy Technology for Sustainable Development
Op-Ed, Harvard Crimson
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
Human well-being rests on a foundation of three pillars: economic conditions and processes; sociopolitical conditions and processes; and environmental conditions and processes. Arguments about which pillar is “the most important” are misguided. All three pillars are indispensable.
February 9, 2001
Meeting the Energy Challenge
Op-Ed, Science, issue 5506, volume 291
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
June 2, 1998
Nuclear Proliferation and U.S. Responsibilities
Op-Ed, Chicago Tribune
By John P. Holdren, Former Director and Faculty Chair, Science, Technology and Public Policy Program
