11 Questions for Obama’s Science Team

[OKIsItJustMe]

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/31/top-questions-for-obama-science-team/

December 31, 2008, 5:33 pm

11 Questions for Obama’s Science Team

By Andrew C. Revkin

President-elect Barack Obama pledges to put a lot of emphasis not only on reinvigorating science, but on making decisions that are grounded in science. As promised, I’m going to seek answers from his environmental and science team to the questions that received the most reader recommendations. Here are the top 10 (actually, 11 because of a multiple tie):

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(It's pointless to try to edit this down to just 4 paragraphs.)

[Buzz Clik]

1. How about just posting the questions:

1. Green Education?
2. A Fusion Push?
3. Can Science Get Respect?
4. What Price Carbon?
5. Why Not Tax Instead of Cap?
6. Will Population Be a Priority?
7. Will You Make Science ‘Cool’?
8. Will You Bridge Economics and Science?
9. Boosting U.S. Brainpower
10. Will Obama Respect Science?
11. Are Ethanol Mandates Defensible?


Many of these really aren't science questions at all.

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2. 7. Will You Make Science ‘Cool’?

I still maintain that's the reason he should put people like Neil DeGrasse Tyson and Michiu Kaku on his team.