> -----Original Message----- > From: Gruss Gott [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, December 20, 2008 2:12 PM > To: cf-community > Subject: SCIENCE! > > WASHINGTON - President-elect Barack Obama's selection Saturday of a > Harvard physicist and a marine biologist for science posts is a sign > he plans a more aggressive response to global warming than did the > Bush administration.
I'm definitely in favor of more research into climate change (my position, in short: I'm convinced that we have an impact, not convinced we can say what that impact is but find the actions to combat any effect more good than bad). However at the same time I'm wary that climate change can sometimes turn into the four-hundred pound gorilla: once it enters the room talk about anything else seems to end. The Bush administration was awful for science in general - not just Climate Change, but biomedical research (stem cell research), sociology (abstinence-only education?), biological evolution and anything with "astro" in it (we'll very likely be facing a two-or-more-year gap in satellite climate data because funding was cut for the scheduled replacement instruments. Climate change is important but we can't lose sight of the fact that it's far from the only discipline that the United States has fallen embarrassingly behind in. Jim Davis ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:283156 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
