China’s ascent is, in one sense, good news. More knowledge expands the global pool of discovery from which everyone can draw. The world benefits when science thrives. The problem is not that China is investing, but that the U.S. is not.
Budget proposal would also curb federal payments for scientific publishing.
If scientists think that kissing up to the president has any strategic value, they are quite mistaken; the destruction of American science isn’t slowing down, and all this smells like appeasement.
Agreement requires agency to evaluate hundreds of applications “in good faith” using its standard process
Much of the National Center for Atmospheric Research’s non-climate portfolio will be dispersed, the White House says.
According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet.
The government funds institutions that stretch across American society. The Trump administration is demanding the relinquishment of constitutional rights to keep the money flowing.
The ivory tower has been breached.
Geostrategically located, with profitable natural resources, the Arctic is rapidly becoming a militarized zone of power politics in the new cold war, contested by the US and Europe, Russia and China.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory fired the talented and prolific climate scientist Rose Abramoff for displaying the banner “Out of the lab & into the streets" at a science conference.
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