What's New

Visit Institute CEO William O'Keefe's blogs on the Washington Post's Planet Panel and the National Journal's Energy & Environment Expert Blogs

Making National Space Policy  The evolution of United States Space  Policy from Eisenhower to Obama

Re-Categorizing Cyber Conflict

A Wellspring of Politics, Not Science

Evaluating the Obama National Space Policy: Continuity and New Priorities

Clouding the Truth: A Critique of Merchants of Doubt

Cold Yucca Mountain: Is Carbon Capture & Sequestration the Coal Industry's Gordian Knot?

Heavy Lift: A Pillar of American Space Flight

Video: Future of the Space Industrial Base

Video: Understand Climate Science Before Making Climate Policy

Institute Chairman Dr. Will Happer was a witness before the House Select Energy Independence and Global Warming Committee in a May 20 hearing titled "Climate Science in the Political Arena." The video is available here.

Not New, but Topical:

• The Cocktail Conversation Guide to Global Warming

• Transportation Fuels from Biomass: An Interesting, but Limited, Option

• Inconvenient Data: The Need for an International Climate Data Registry

The George C. Marshall Institute seeks to improve the understanding of scientific and technical issues that influence national security, energy and environmental policy.

Public policy matters are shaped by advances in science and technology. For that reason, unbiased and scientifically accurate assessments of the meaning of these advances for policy are critical. Where science is misused and distorted to promote special interests, we work to:

• Communicate scientific information clearly,
• Identify key linkages between science and policy issues, and
• Provide balanced and accurate assessments on specific science-based policy issues.