Last year, researchers writing in the journal Science warned that global measures to regulate the fishing industry lacked the capability to tackle illegal catches.
James Hansen, who is known as the father of climate science, warned that future generations would judge the decision to back a UK fracking industry harshly.
A report last year in the journal Science warned that such paperwork is at "risk of pricing large clinical trials out of reach".
Hands-on approach An Ofsted report last year, Success in Science, warned that "hands-on" science was in danger of becoming a thing of the past because too many teachers did not know enough about the subject to lead experiments.
The pessimistic view, famously expressed by fisheries expert Daniel Pauly, is that we may be facing "The End of Fish". One especially dire 2006 study in Science warned that many commercial ocean fish stocks were on pace to "collapse" by mid-century — at which point they would produce less than 10percentt of their peak catch.
Lesley Yellowlees, president of the Royal Society of Chemistry, welcomed the extra money for science but warned that the supposedly ring-fenced science budget was still at risk.
Last week the chief of the CSIRO's space science division warned that the radio telescope at Parkes, which helped beam the first moon landing in 1969, could also shut to meet the required savings.
Bending Science warns that when science becomes artificially manipulated to misrepresent the hazards of products, "serious adverse consequences for human health and the environment, as well as for the economic well-being of legitimate businesses," may arise.
And yet, the process of awarding financial aid can, at times, be more art than science, and Mr. Goggin warned that the net price calculator might be less useful in predicting the dollar value of an institution's potential merit aid offer, for example.
That's very good news, say science lobbyists, who nevertheless warned that the bill must still survive a threatened White House veto if its higher spending levels aren't first whittled down in the Senate.
John Wanna, a professor of political science at Australian National University in Canberra, warned that the acrimonious public showdown was a symptom of a "dysfunctional" government that was beginning to "implode".
