"We want to see politicians who, if they're not necessarily scientists, are willing to listen to scientists and are willing to take on board the evidence that surrounds them, rather than ignore it completely," said Singh.
And Jeb Bush will be just another stumbling, mumbling Republican candidate for president who is not a scientist, doesn't want to listen to scientists, and may spend as much time undoing years of progress on the environment as the GOP will have spent trying to undo Obama's healthcare law.
If he won't listen to scientists – like the 20 top climatologists who told him that the Keystone pipeline was a mistake – then top scientists are increasingly clear that they'll need to get arrested to make their point.
People don't generally listen to scientists much.
They were more likely to listen to scientists, who had hard evidence at their disposal.
In Half-Life, the great science fiction shooter set amid the alien invasion of a hidden research base, you can listen to scientists pleading with you for help, while you leap around the room, or hit them with a crowbar.
Ranging across topics, she repeated her call to start withdrawing troops from Iraq now, urged the government to listen to scientists concerned about global warming, and recalled the moral authority of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in combating poverty and inequality.
When the International Tire Exhibition and Conference opened here today, more than 2,500 people gathered in small meeting rooms to listen to scientists deliver papers on "Metallic Coagents for Bonding Rubber to Metal and Synthetic Fibers" or "Tire Shearography".
The Institutional Revolutionary Party, which until last year had enjoyed a monopoly on power for decades, had little incentive to be accountable to the public, to listen to scientists or to press for changes, especially ones that could thwart economic development.
In 2009, the White House invited Dr. Wood to attend a ceremony during which Mr. Obama signed a presidential memorandum pledging to restore scientific integrity to government decision-making and to listen to scientists "even when it's inconvenient — especially when it's inconvenient".
