This is a story summary. I do not have a subscription so that I could post the whole story, but I thought DU'ers would like to see that future president Obama has his eye on the ball wrt our natural environment, that has been so obscenely ignored this past 8 years.
Obama outlines science spending boost
Nobel laureates endorse Democratic candidate and his plans for science.Alexandra Witze
As political and financial leaders in the United States struggled on Thursday to contain the meltdown on Wall Street, presidential contender Barack Obama released an 11-page "plan for science and innovation" that outlined aggressive investments in science and technology. The proposal includes a doubling of funding over ten years at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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http://www.nature.com/news/2008/080925/full/news.2008.1135.html