Shifting Baselines Blog

10/5 - Bush and Kerry on the Oceans: "The who-whats?"

What do the presidential candidates have to say about the fate of our oceans? Apparently not much. At least not when Physics Today is doing the interviewing. They quizzed both candidates on what they felt are the 7 most important issues in science: Missile Defense, Climate Change, Science Investment, Nuclear Weapons, Nuclear Proliferation, Energy Policy, Nuclear Power, and National Laboratories. Perhaps it says more about the interests of physicists, but still, if the noise being made about the oceans today were loud enough (as it is for climate change) it would have somehow been on their list.

The oceans are ... um ... wet.