Not exact matches
Marshall's decision to «realign» CSIRO's
priorities could see 350 jobs go over the next 2 years and comes on top of cuts of more
than $ 15 million to climate and environmental
science in the 2014 — 15 federal budget.
Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) Chief Executive Larry «Marshall's decision to «realign» CSIRO's
priorities could see 350 jobs go over the next 2 years and comes on top of cuts of more
than $ 15 million to climate and environmental
science in the 2014 - 15 federal budget.
«Cigarette smokers are at far greater risk
than the general public for developing lung cancer, and helping smokers quit should be our top cancer prevention
priority in these people,» said Jian - Min Yuan, M.D., Ph.D., associate director of the UPCI's Division of Cancer Control and Population
Science and an epidemiologist with Pitt's Graduate School of Public Health.
Wieman told the committee that «powerful, vested interests» on college campuses discourage the adoption of new ways to teach
science and train future
science teachers, saying that most universities place a higher
priority on research productivity
than on student learning.
I believe that teaching has gained increased
priority for me so that I can do my part to emphasize the questions and the
science of human genetics rather
than the technology.
So producing students who are creative, who can navigate delicate social situations, who encourage their peers to perform better, who take extra
science classes, or who can figure out the right questions to be asking in the first place is a lower
priority than producing students who can nudge test scores higher.
For example, some states prohibited districts from spending Title I on school climate supports, counselors,
science, or other costs other
than reading and math, even though that wasn't required by federal law and didn't reflect state policy
priorities.
The UK's leading business organisation has published new research showing that the majority of primary teachers believe
science has become less of a curriculum
priority, with over a third of schools now providing less
than the recommended two hours of
science education a week.
-- Muller believes humans are changing climate with CO2 emissions — humans have been responsible for «most» of a 0.4 C warming since 1957, almost none of the warming before then — IPCC is in trouble due to sloppy
science, exaggerated predictions; chairman will have to resign — the «Climategate» mails were not «hacked» — they were «leaked» by an insider — due to «hide the decline» deception, Muller will not read any future papers by Michael Mann — there has been no increase in hurricanes or tornadoes due to global warming — automobiles are insignificant in overall picture — China is the major CO2 producer, considerably more
than USA today — # 1
priority for China is growth of economy — global warming is not considered important — China CO2 efficiency (GDP per ton CO2) is around one - fourth of USA today, has much room for improvement — China growth will make per capita CO2 emissions at same level as USA today by year 2040 — if it is «not profitable» it is «not sustainable» — US energy future depends on shale gas for automobiles; hydrogen will not be a factor — nor will electric cars, due to high cost — Muller is upbeat on nuclear (this was recorded pre-Fukushima)-- there has been no warming in the USA — Muller was not convinced of Hansen's GISS temperature record; hopes BEST will provide a better record.
The scientific process may well be simple enough, but the
priorities and presuppositions of
science as an institution — which «speaks» to the public, to tell them what to do and what to expect — owes much more to the historical context and to politics and ideology
than its advocate can admit.
And it seems obvious to those who would elevate
science as a political institution that
science's
priorities should be about «risk management» rather
than the normal business of
science: finding the mechanisms of disease and their cures, understanding the natural world, and improving our productive capacities, and the such like which need no political authority.