Hitting the right notes on science
The environmental science community is welcoming the new Obama administration with open arms. That's no surprise, of course -- there was never any love lost between environmental scientists and the George W. Bush administration. But for the science community this transition is more than the departure of an enemy. So far, the new president is hitting all the right notes to sound like a friend. Rick Weiss at Science Progress reports that before the election Obama...
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In his inaugural address, this morning, it took President Obama a mere 228 words to mention the word “energy”. This is instructive when compared to George W. Bush’s second inaugural address in which he waited until – well, um…, he never used the word “energy”. But, to be fair, neither did Jimmy Carter, who took office in the shadow of an energy crisis spurred by OPEC’s manipulation of oil markets. And history demonstrates that Jimmy Carter clearly underst...
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