President obamas top science adviser discusses the science and environmental initiatives of the Obama Administration and how they are changing in the Trump Administration. This is about an hour. Welcome, everyone. Thank you, thank you. Welcome to the American Association for the advancement of science, or aaas, as we call it, and welcome to our kickoff event for the historic march for science tomorrow. Im celeste rolfing, chief operating officer here. Its my distinct pleasure today to introduce our speaker, dr. John holdrun. John is a professor of environmental policy at the Kennedy School of government and professor of Environmental Science and policy in the department of earth and Planetary Sciences at harvard university. In 1995, john gave the acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize on behalf of the pug wash conferences on science and world affairs, an International Organization of scientists and public figures in which he served in various leadership positions. More recently fo
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I think we will start if everybody has their coffee and we are ready to launch this. My name is jacky gillan and i am president for advocates of highway safety. I have the honor of introducing this mornings speaker, dr. Rosekind who is the 15th administrator of the national Highway Traffic Safety Administration and he was sworn into office this past december 2 22nd. I got to know him after he was appointed to serve on the National Transportation and safety board in 2010. We worked together on semple safety issues with impaired and distracted driving. Marks dedication is rooted in his professional life and professional career. He spoke about his father publically San Francisco Police Officer who tragically died into the line of duty by a driver who ran a red light. And like many other room in the men administrator rosekind married up. His wife is a successful pediatrician practicing in the San Francisco bay area. His studies and professional career prepared him well for the challenge of
[applause] its wonderful to be back so i thought i would give you some of the major ideas that are in the book. Recently essentially see your eyes glaze over then we go to q a so i am in the fifth week to you physically the same talk so i am pretty tired of it. [laughter] blige just thought i would move past that to have the of bit more of a conversation. I think this is an engaged groupon we have had some really good discussions not only the technical detail but the geopolitical mitscher so to me that is the interesting part i will try to throw out enough to talk about but not so much i go into the question and answer time. I started to write september 2009. Rights after i was ambushed in afghanistan is this is one of the classic scenario is. Most live in mountain valleys of the little villages nobody really lives high on the mountains they live on the valley floor and usually there is only one road. By 4 00 in the afternoon everyone knows exactly where. Kid you hear me okay . And the
[applause] its wonderful to be back so i thought i would give you some of the major ideas that are in the book. Recently essentially see your eyes glaze over then we go to q a so i am in the fifth week to you physically the same talk so i am pretty tired of it. [laughter] blige just thought i would move past that to have the of bit more of a conversation. I think this is an engaged groupon we have had some really good discussions not only the technical detail but the geopolitical mitscher so to me that is the interesting part i will try to throw out enough to talk about but not so much i go into the question and answer time. I started to write september 2009. Rights after i was ambushed in afghanistan is this is one of the classic scenario is. Most live in mountain valleys of the little villages nobody really lives high on the mountains they live on the valley floor and usually there is only one road. By 4 00 in the afternoon everyone knows exactly where. Kid you hear me okay . And the