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Science And Government: An Earth Systems Science Agency, Science
 









Excerpts: Addressing serious environmental and economic challenges in the United
States will require organizational changes at the federal level. (...) Robust
Earth-observing systems are critical to meeting national and international
needs. Yet these systems have not kept pace with increasing demands of the
public and private sectors for comprehensive, high-quality information on the
changing global environment. At a time when federal Earth-observing systems
should have been ramping up, priorities have shifted to manned missions to the
Moon and Mars. A recent study by the National Research Council found that NASA's
Earth science budget had declined 30% since 2000. The scientific importance and
societal value of remote sensing systems has not been communicated effectively
to the public and Congress; hence, there is little awareness of the shortfalls
in our Earth-observing systems--and no driving force to address them. Yet these
systems are critical to public safety, natural disaster response, and efficient
transportation and they fuel multibillion-dollar industries.
Source: Science And Government: An Earth Systems Science Agency[
http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/321/5885/44 ], Mark Schaefer, D.
James Baker, John H. Gibbons, Charles G. Groat, Donald Kennedy, Charles F.
Kennel, David Rejeski, DOI: DOI: 10.1126/science.1160192, Science, 08/07/04

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