Sentences with phrase «kind federal science»

«It's time to study and maybe even test the idea of cooling Earth by injecting sulfur pollution high in the air to reflect the sun's heat, a first - of - its - kind federal science report said Tuesday.»

Fed report: Time to examine purposely cooling planet idea — A.P. Seth Borenstein writes «It's time to study and maybe even test the idea of cooling the Earth by injecting sulfur pollution high in the air to reflect the sun's heat, a first - of - its - kind federal science report said Tuesday.»

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The reef effort is the kind of science - based project many Gulf stakeholders had in mind when they pushed for a federal act, called RESTORE, that allocated to Gulf restoration much of the potentially billions of dollars in fines and penalties that will be paid by those responsible for the oil spill.

There are other ways to try to create incentives for greater support of science by industry, by philanthropy; and those ought to be pursued too because I think the record shows that we simply can't depend entirely on the Federal government — especially in view of the kind of fluctuations that result from either depressions in the national treasury; that result from reductions and tax revenues; or the expenditures sometimes unexpected like Katrina; or unfortunate expenditures like the ones we are spending now in Iraq.

Participants at a recent event marking the 50th anniversary of the so - called military - industrial complex questioned whether this kind of federal involvement traps science as the slave of government.

«Sustaining and growing support for research and development under the kinds of constraints that we have experienced in the federal budget» is one of the top S&T - related challenges — along with others involving climate change, NASA funding, and STEM education — facing the Obama administration in its last year and a half, said Holdren who is the director of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and techScience and Technology Policy and assistant to the president for science and techscience and technology.

«Spending time planning lessons with teachers in the classroom, there's no substituting for that kind of work,» said Rosen, who recently received a Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching, the highest award given by the federal government to math and science teScience Teaching, the highest award given by the federal government to math and science tescience teachers.

Gray's crusade against global warming «hysteria» began in the early 1990s, when he saw enormous sums of federal research money going toward computer modeling rather than his kind of science, the old - fashioned stuff based on direct observation.

Smog, soot and other particles like the kind often seen hanging over Beijing add to global warming and may raise summer temperatures in the American heartland by three degrees in about 50 years, says a new federal science report released Thursday.