Talk:James R. Schlesinger

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We should mention his activities as Secretary of Energy. Here's a link:

http://www.sepp.org/NewSEPP/Theology%20GW.htm

  • Mr. Schlesinger, the first secretary of energy, launched the Department of Energy's Carbon Dioxide Effects and Assessment Program shortly after the creation of that department in 1977.

He accuses the UN's climate change panel (IPCC) of bias:

  • the IPCC was created to support a specific political goal. It is directed to support the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change.

--Uncle Ed 19:00, 13 April 2006 (UTC)

re: scientific consensus he wrote:

science is not a matter of consensus, as the histories of Galileo, Copernicus, Pasteur, Einstein and others will attest. Science depends not on speculation but on conclusions verified through experiment. Verification is more than computer simulations -- whose conclusions mirror the assumptions built in the model.

[edit] family jewels

this should be mentioned:

"The documents -- the so-called "family jewels" -- are part of official investigations and reforms instituted in 1973 on the order of then CIA chief James Schlesinger, after he discovered illegal activities had been ongoing since the 1950s." - Yahoo news (AFP), 22 June 2007 http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20070621/pl_afp/usintelligencecia_070621224826 211.225.32.223 07:03, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Unsourced quotation

I've removed the following sentence from the lede because it violates WP:BLP (among other policies).

Ford eventually dismissed Schlesinger for his "aloof, frequently arrogant manner."

Another problem is that the sentence is ambiguous: did President Ford use the quoted phrase, or did someone else use it in discussing Ford's dismissal of Schlesinger?

If someone can find a reliable source for these words, we can put an improved version of the sentence back. If not, we need to decide whether the event deserves a mention in the lede. (I have no opinion on that question.) CWC 09:13, 4 June 2008 (UTC)