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  Isolation of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Part I Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2015-11-28 15:15 -0600
    Re: Isolation of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Part I jimp@specsol.spam.sux.com - 2015-11-28 23:06 +0000

#536152 — Isolation of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Part I

Isolation of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Part I
> http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2015/20151127_Isolation.pdf


> Earlier this year I received a message from a long-time reader of my
> Communications1, who was persuaded of the urgency of the climate
> problem. As a significant supporter of the Democratic Party, he had
> the opportunity to meet President Obama, and he was preparing a
> specific question: would the President be willing to “meet with Jim
> Hansen”, who, the supporter asserted, understood the problem as well
> as anyone and has “some viable ways to fix the problem”?

> Obama’s response: he had already read my stuff (presumably meaning my
> book2), but would be interested in talking if it were about policy
> (presumably meaning that he was already convinced about the reality
> of the science). My response to the supporter was that we should
> check whether the offer was real after my long-overdue “Ice Melt”
> paper was submitted for publication.

> This summer, after submitting the paper, my supporter tried
> valiantly, but dolefully reported that he could not get through, the
> President was too well protected. Not so easily deterred, I reported
> the matter to Obama’s Science Adviser, John Holdren, and sent him my
> Ice Melt paper. Holdren responded that it was a valuable paper, but
> he ignored my request to meet the President.

> So who does the President listen to?

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Isolation of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue: Part I
>> http://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2015/20151127_Isolation.pdf
> 
> 
>> Earlier this year I received a message from a long-time reader of my
>> Communications1, who was persuaded of the urgency of the climate
>> problem. As a significant supporter of the Democratic Party, he had
>> the opportunity to meet President Obama, and he was preparing a
>> specific question: would the President be willing to ?meet with Jim
>> Hansen?, who, the supporter asserted, understood the problem as well
>> as anyone and has ?some viable ways to fix the problem??
> 
>> Obama?s response: he had already read my stuff (presumably meaning my
>> book2), but would be interested in talking if it were about policy
>> (presumably meaning that he was already convinced about the reality
>> of the science). My response to the supporter was that we should
>> check whether the offer was real after my long-overdue ?Ice Melt?
>> paper was submitted for publication.
> 
>> This summer, after submitting the paper, my supporter tried
>> valiantly, but dolefully reported that he could not get through, the
>> President was too well protected. Not so easily deterred, I reported
>> the matter to Obama?s Science Adviser, John Holdren, and sent him my
>> Ice Melt paper. Holdren responded that it was a valuable paper, but
>> he ignored my request to meet the President.
> 
>> So who does the President listen to?
 
Try spamming the President and see how that works for you.


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Jim Pennino

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