Comments on: Fifteen Years Too Early http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=5003 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 22:36:51 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Maurice Garoutte http://cstpr.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=5003&cpage=1#comment-12525 Maurice Garoutte Fri, 27 Feb 2009 16:36:11 +0000 http://sciencepolicy.colorado.edu/prometheus/?p=5003#comment-12525 It’s ok that scientific research doesn’t provide information useful to policy makers. Those people think on very different levels of abstraction. For example the engineers designing direct injection motors for GM do not provide information useful to the Board of Directors. General Motors employs management people that are capable of communication with the technical staff, the marketing staff, and the Board of Directors. What the policy makers in the government need is staff that understands climate science and can place the technology in the context of political science. Roger, you probably know someone who could communicate in both fields. It’s ok that scientific research doesn’t provide information useful to policy makers. Those people think on very different levels of abstraction. For example the engineers designing direct injection motors for GM do not provide information useful to the Board of Directors.

General Motors employs management people that are capable of communication with the technical staff, the marketing staff, and the Board of Directors. What the policy makers in the government need is staff that understands climate science and can place the technology in the context of political science.

Roger, you probably know someone who could communicate in both fields.

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