You might think science got clipped in President Obama’s 2011 budget because the headlines focused on his call to cancel the moon mission former President George W. Bush had launched in 2004.

Just the opposite is true, said editors of the big science journals.

“Nearly every research agency emerges as a winner,” said Nature. “Even NASA, heavily curtailed in its plans for human exploration of space, is slated for an increase.”

“Science fared well,” the online edition of Science reported.

The biggest proposed boost is for the Food and Drug Administration: a 23 percent increase, most of it coming from user fees charged to companies to cover the costs of inspecting food, reviewing drugs and dealing with other products regulated by FDA.

The budget also proposes an 8 percent raise for the National Science Foundation, some of which is targeted toward clean energy, the next generation of silicon technology and climate change. Other proposed increases include 3.2 percent for the National Institutes of Health and 4.6 percent for the Department of Energy’s Office of Science.

Comb through the increases and you see clear themes that are consistent with the priorities Obama stressed in his presidential campaign: curtailing climate-changing pollution, fostering a new generation of innovators in the nation’s labs, using energy more efficiently and diversifying the sources of energy.

There’s a huge caveat, of course, in the year when Obama also has called for restraint on discretionary spending and Congress members must answer to voters for runaway deficits.

Nature articulated it this way: “Whether Congress will approve the budget is the question, given how little the president and Congress have managed to get done together, even before the Democrats lost their overwhelming majority in the Senate following last month's Massachusetts election victory by a Republican candidate.”