But the words “medal, dinner, and Royal Society” seem to be missing. I suppose Obama just doesn’t see the need to acknowledge them at all.
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*Subject:* Joint Fact Sheet: U.S.-UK Higher Education, Science, and
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THE WHITE HOUSE
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May 25, 2011
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*Joint Fact Sheet: U.S.-UK **Higher Education, Science, and Innovation
Collaboration*
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Prime Minister Cameron and President Obama agree that science and
higher education are the foundation stones of their two nations’ 21^st
century economies and that the UK and U.S. have a responsibility to
further their global leadership roles in these essential fields. The
U.S. funds approximately one-third of the world’s scientific research
and the UK is first among G-8 countries in scientific publications and
citations as a fraction of GDP. In higher education, the U.S. and UK
are home to the world’s ten highest ranking universities.
Recognizing the great potential for productive cooperation in these
domains, the Prime Minister and President reaffirmed during the State
visit their mutual commitment to strong collaboration in science and
higher education and agreed to work to increase the number of joint
endeavours among individuals in cutting-edge laboratories,
universities, scientific societies, think tanks, government agencies
to develop human capital and ensure a strong and agile knowledge base.
They expressed particular support for cooperation in fields that will
create jobs and generate new economic opportunities in both countries
while tackling some of the most pressing global challenges facing the
world today. The leaders also expressed a determination to maintain
research excellence that leads to economic growth and job creation.
The UK and the U.S. are world-leading knowledge economies and enjoy
the most productive bilateral higher education relationship in the
world, with each country being the other’s top destination for
overseas study—a partnership worth more than $1 billion annually. The
Prime Minister and President welcomed the forthcoming meeting of the
UK-U.S. Higher Education Policy Forum. They also encouraged further
strengthening of institutional higher education links including
international internships and other modes of mutual mobility for
students and faculty members—between the U.S. and UK and in
cooperation with other global partners—to better equip American and
British students with the skills needed to succeed in and bolster the
global economy.
The leaders welcomed in particular the growing partnership between the
UK Meteorological Office (Met Office) and the U.S. National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service,
codified with the signing of an historic Memorandum of Agreement in
February 2011. This agreement provides for a coordinated U.S.-UK
partnership in the delivery of space weather alerts to help provide
critical infrastructure protection around the globe. The two
governments announced today that they will embark together on an
ambitious program to create the world’s first combined space weather
model capable of forecasting terrestrial weather with great accuracy
and also indicating where, when, and for how long space weather
effects will persist in our upper atmosphere and whether these
anomalies are likely to disrupt and degrade GPS-enabled positioning,
navigation, and timing capabilities.
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In addition, the leaders announced a package of significant ongoing
and future activities intended to deepen their partnership and
commitment to meeting global challenges in the following areas: Space
Science and Exploration, Clean Energy and Climate Science, Food
Security, Health and Wellbeing, Innovation and Growth. Each of these
is detailed on the corresponding Joint Statement Addendum on Higher
Education, Science, and Innovation Collaboration.
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*/Addendum on Higher Education, Science, and Innovation Collaboration/*
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The Prime Minister and President highlighted the long and
distinguished tradition of bilateral collaboration in science and
innovation, noting that some 30 percent of the UK’s internationally
co-authored papers are with US partners and those papers produce an
impact that is 50 percent higher than the UK research-base average.
The leaders expressed their determination to maintain research
excellence that leads to economic growth and job creation and asked
their respective science advisers to advance strategic discussions on
areas of mutual interest while also encouraging closer ties between
the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)
and the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology (CST). The
leaders also agreed to work together in several specific research
areas including:
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*Innovation, Jobs, and Growth: *The U.S. and the UK are two of the
world’s most active investors in venture capital. The leaders agreed
to work together to ensure that innovative, high-growth businesses
have access to venture capital to fund their growth and create highly
skilled jobs. The Prime Minister and President also noted their
respective countries’ achievements in attracting research and
development investment from overseas. They welcomed the decision by
Johnson & Johnson’s Corporate Office of Science and Technology and its
company Janssen to partner with six leading British Universities to
undertake cutting edge neuroscience research.
*Space Science and Exploration: *The Prime Minister and President
noted that the U.S. and the UK have enjoyed fruitful bilateral
cooperation in earth and space science and look forward to new
initiatives in these areas and in space exploration. The leaders also
acknowledged the significant contributions to understanding our own
planet and noted the UK’s important contributions, through the
European Space Agency and in collaborations with the U.S., relating to
Mars exploration, astronomy, and space physics.
*Terrestrial and Space Weather: *In addition to the collaborations
detailed above, the Met Office and NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction
Center will establish a second 24/7 space weather forecast office to
complement and coordinate the dissemination of actionable space
weather information. At this years’ World Meteorological Congress, the
two countries have agreed to work together with other international
partners to implement a fully operational global space weather warning
system. This close engagement will reflect the increasingly
international nature of space whilst respecting our separate national
priorities.
*Health and Wellbeing: *The two leaders endorsed collaboration between
world-class longitudinal studies in the U.S. and UK, with the
potential to transform our understanding of issues such as childhood
obesity, cancer, aging, and emotional wellbeing. The President and PM
Cameron also welcomed the involvement of the Economic and Social
Research Council in partnership with the National Institute on Aging
at the National Institutes of Health in the development of a U.S.
National Research Council Panel on Measuring Subjective Wellbeing,
which has the potential to generate new insights that will directly
inform social and economic policies. The two leaders also noted the
new programme of joint research on the ecology of infectious diseases.
* *
*Clean Energy and Climate Science: *The two leaders agreed on the
importance of continued collaboration and concerted international
effort in clean energy and climate science. They expressed their
strong support for the next Clean Energy Ministerial, which will take
place in London in 2012. They endorsed the announcement of UK
co-funding of the National Science Foundation’s Partnerships for
International Research and Education program in the area of
Sustainable Materials for Energy, agreeing that sustainability should
be a key consideration when making choices among competing energy
technology options. The U.S., through its Department of Agriculture
(USDA), will continue working with the UK as a part of the Global
Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases to address
mitigation of greenhouse gases from croplands, livestock production
systems, and paddy rice, while enhancing food security. In addition,
the UK and U.S. entities are engaging African and Asian developing
countries in the Agricultural Model Intercomparison and Improvement
Project to better understand the implications of climate change on
food production and food security around the world and to develop
adaption strategies. They emphasized the importance of data sharing
and open science data policies that support climate research and
modelling.
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H.R. says:
May 27, 2011 at 6:24 am
“[…] The leaders welcomed in particular the growing partnership between the
UK Meteorological Office (Met Office) and the U.S. National Oceanic
and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) National Weather Service, […]“
Aha! Proof of a conspiracy. ;o)
More like the blind leading the blind! :o)
Maybe nobody at the White House knows what the Royal Society is.
Obama apparently knows he can do more for climate playing ping-pong with his homies than meeting with the Royal Society.
In Obama’s case, that just might be true.
Extensive cooperation on the effects of global climate strange (sic) on the flight of ping pong balls will be a priority in this effort.
Although the BBC and others in the UK are going into overdrive trying to portray Obarmy as a great “Statesman”, I’m very far from being pursuaded.
But his political antennae (or at least, his advisors’ antennae) are sufficiently acute to avoid hobnobbing with the egregious Paul Nurse and his gang. (And neither Cameron nor Obama really care two hoots about science, providing the likes of Nurse keep on giving them an alibi for exponentially increasing taxes!)
Compare and contrast with Prince Chuckles who scurried off to the CRU within days of Climategate going viral, so he could “give his support” to the crooks and incompetents who work there.
“The U.S., through its Department of Agriculture (USDA), will continue working with the UK as a part of the Global Research Alliance on Agricultural Greenhouse Gases to address mitigation of greenhouse gases from croplands, livestock production systems, and paddy rice, while enhancing food security. ”
In other words, Obama is going to loot the USDA budget to send taxpayer funds to the UK, which has already spent too much propping up its shaky AGW myth.
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Executive Summary: Obama fiddles, while US burns…..*
*see “Fall Of The Roman Empire” for historical parallels.
Amazing article in The Guardian today, although from the postings on the online resource, it would appear that the sad pinkos that read it are not yet ready to accept apostasy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/may/26/bravo-for-the-nimbys-wind-power
Sorry to rain on your parade, with “science” they mean “post-normal science”, not science.
I am for cooperation in science and in education but I am not for promoting pseudoscience. And pseudoscience comes in under the innocuous heading of “clean energy and climate science.“ The entire clean energy field is intended to support efforts to head off that “dangerous global warming“ predicted by the pseudoscience of global warming. By clean they mean not releasing carbon dioxide, and very cleverly the wording fails to mention this trace gas by name. This major research effort would not be required at all if that warming is not headed for us, and it isn’t. Predictions of warming all come from computer simulations that assume two things: that adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere creates an enhanced greenhouse effect and that water vapor in the atmosphere increases that greenhouse effect by positive feedback. The evidence, however, indicates that water vapor feedback effect is negative, not positive. But there is worse news for them from Ferenc Miskolczi, a Hungarian scientist. He used NOAA weather balloon database that goes back to 1948 and determined that the transparency of the atmosphere in the infrared where carbon dioxide absorbs did not change for the last 61 years. At the same time the amount of carbon dioxide in the air increased by 21.6 percent. This means that the greenhouse absorption signature of this added carbon dioxide is entirely missing. No absorption, no greenhouse effect, case closed. But model-makers have been putting this non-existent greenhouse effect into their computers to get these dangerous warming predictions. If you put a non-existent greenhouse effect into your computer you are putting garbage into your computer. Which makes its output also garbage. Or GIGO as they say. Super-GIGO actually because it comes from supercomputers they cheated out of Uncle Sam by scare stories. But what about all that global warming we are supposed to be living in? Actually, satellites that have been measuring global temperature since 1979 cannot see any of it. The only real warming they have detected is a short spurt that started in 1998, in four years raised global temperature by a third of a degree, and then stopped. It was oceanic, not greenhouse. It, and not the greenhouse effect, is the cause of the very warm first decade of our century. The satellite temperature curve differs from those put out by NASA, NOAA, and the Met Office. One important difference is in the eighties and nineties where these three curves show steady warming while satellites see the temperature just oscillate, up and down by half a degree for twenty years but not rise until 1998. I have compared all three curves with the satellite curve and determined that they have all been tampered with. It would have been hard to understand this even a year ago but now it all fits neatly together: satellites cannot see anthropogenic warming and Miskolczi explains why this must be so. The bottom line: mitigation efforts and attempts to produce clean energy are all for nothing and money spent on these projects is a total and irresponsible waste. For more on the real state of climate read :What Warming?“ available on Amazon.
DRE says, @ur momisugly 8.32am
I’d love you to be right about that!
Maybe they actually thought Royal Society referred to having lunch with the Queen – too good to be true, I fear.
Janssen’s cutting edge neuroscience research in the U.S. http://bipolarsoupkitchen-stephany.blogspot.com/2010/10/youth-in-juvenile-detention.html
Global warming policies and economic growth/job creation are mutually exclusive.
We can only dream………
I have since learned that the name of this joint program was dropped from the final draft. Not sure why, it is to called……
Scientific Knowledge Enabling Protocol To Improve Climate Science.
We can only dream..
“I want to take this opportunity to announce a joint program with Prime Minister Cameron to advance science and higher education forward in this the 21st Century. To restore to the people of the U.S their dignity and autonomy under their Constitutional rights and to outlaw the usurpation of their money by the Corporate Banking cartel holding them in thralldom by creating money out of debt, out of nothing, to their own aggrandisement and the slavery of the people, and concurrently, introduce the principles of the cleaned-up version to the British serfs, at present owned by the Corporation U.K.”
Yeah, and a commenter’s “wrecked havoc” (vs. “wreaked”). If it sounds about right, throw it in there. Blech. >:(
Yeah, the UK is going to economically resemble a war-ravaged disaster if it actually implements current government policy. I wonder if O wants the US to ameliorate, mitigate, or emulate that …