Sentences with phrase «lack of energy science»

Remember this half - century portrait of scientific inquiry in America, and the utter lack of energy science there (not including spending on military science, which is off the charts): Read more...

Remember this half - century portrait of scientific inquiry in America, and the utter lack of energy science there (not including spending on military science, which is off the charts):

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Research studies on effective learning show that students lack ways to conceptualize chemical reactions, and NGSS calls for students to develop an understanding of energy principles that they can apply consistently across life and physical science.

In the response by raypierre - I agree about the problems with simple energy balance model and its lack of spatial representation, but it's tough to fault the authors for the lack of cloud detail, since the science is not up to the task of solving that problem (and doing so would be outside the scope of the paper; very few paleoclimate papers that tackle the sensitivity issue do much with clouds).

@groditi @GaelicTorus it drives a lot of technology development, materials science, design (or lack thereof), advertising, energy efficiency Oct 22, 2012

The other thing that's still lacking, of course, is fresh commitments to boosting long - lagging investments in basic research and development in energy sciences and related areas — which a host of studies have shown to be vital if that reality gap is to be closed.

(Progress on each front becomes dependent on progress, or lack of, on other fronts: adaptation awaits «better» science; energy policy is wedded to disputed science - based targets; science is justified for its promise of reduced uncertainties.)

Tom Yulsman at the University of Colorado makes this point bitingly at CEJournal, noting the ridiculousness of rehashing basic climate science in the face of clear evidence that the lack of a forward - looking American energy policy --- particularly one aimed at weaning the country from at least the liquid fossil fuel — is a real - time crisis.

One disappointment for me was the lack of any mention — particularly from a science guy — of the decades of bipartisan disinvestment in basic research and development in energy sciences in the United States and other industrialized countries — a gap that many studies have found would need to be filled to have any chance of achieving steep drops in greenhouse - gas emissions.

I'd like to spend part of this year finding and drawing attention to people who are the Douglas Martin equivalents trying to develop ways to bring illumination and cleaner, cheap sources of cooking energy to the billions who lack these core assets; devising scaleable means of providing potable water and sanitation (not easy) in poor places; closing the huge «yield gap» between African farmers and their * counterparts in many other regions; boosting environmental literacy and engagement with science...

Keep in mind none of this prevents me from trying repeatedly to explain climate science, reveal efforts to distort climate findings, and lay out, in an unvarnished way, the real - world options for cutting greenhouse - gas emissions and the lack of effort under way to tackle the energy challenge underlying the climate problem.

Independent organizations such as the International Energy Agency suggest that needs to occur by 2020, however, but Shell's optimistic view appears to be characterised by its reading (or lack of reading) of the science.

Previous posts at MasterResource have documented the lack of open intellectual inquiry at Resources for the Future (RFF) regarding the physical science of climate change and the case for government - led transformation of energy sources.

That presentation on the lack of science underlying Kyoto has lead to another presentation to be held this month in Edmonton to the Standing Policy Committee on Energy.»

As far as renewable energy science goes, the real problem is the lack of a scientific base of expertise in this country — ocean science departments, earth science institutes, meteorology departments — these are all very common.

Avoidance of a mature, science based, nuclear energy discussion usually comes back to cognitive dissonance alone, and from that comes a lack of rational cognitive thinking as well as a lack of courtesy to others and much «hand waving».

Still other energy policies, however, suffer from a lack of social science research about their effectiveness.