Saturday, January 16, 2021

IN the NEWS - Mother Earth will be the Focus

Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools... Romans 1:22

"Joe Biden has chosen decorated geneticist Eric Lander as
presidential science adviser and director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP). In what would be a first for this position, if Lander is confirmed by the U.S. Senate, he will serve as a member of Biden’s cabinet. Many scientists have long called for the OSTP director to be raised to a cabinet-level position. 
 
Biden has already established a separate, high-level team to lead the national response to the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as a team to drive forward his climate agenda
 
Biden has given at least a hint of what he’d like Lander to work on, however. In a letter to Lander, Biden outlined five key questions he wanted OSTP to tackle, including ....how science and technology breakthroughs could help address climate change."
 
Biden has also chosen Nobel Prize-winning chemical engineer
Frances Arnold to cochair the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST). ....Arnold, a professor at the California Institute of Technology, is excited....Climate change will clearly be one of PCAST’s most important efforts as science is at the heart of everything from mitigating the effects of climate change to moving to a carbon-free society, Arnold says."
ScientificAmerican/C&EN