Free Republic

...Physicist John Holdren, who received his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1970, spent his early years working in magnetic fusion energy at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory before apparently being hit by a piece of the sky while at the University of California, Berkeley. Since 1996, he has spent his time as an activist professor of environmental policy at both UC, Berkely, and Harvard (partially funded by the Teresa and John Heinz Foundation), advocating for radical action against CO2 emissions and calling for a vast redistribution of global wealth.