STORY HIGHLIGHTS Scientists surer than ever humans play major role in climate change, report says Global warming already affecting extreme weather, and it could get worse, report says U.N.’s IPCC convenes every six years to put together report; it’s considered benchmark on topic Even if emissions ended today, effects of climate change…
Rediscovering Richard Dawkins: An Interview by J.P. O’Malley Sep 23, 2013 He might be prone to controversial outbursts, but what does the world’s leading atheist and scientist really like to talk about? J.P. O’Malley visits Dawkins in his Oxford home to find out. Whenever Richard Dawkins’s name appears in the news nowadays, it’s usually for the wrong…
August 8th, 2013 10:54 AM ET Zakaria: We’re in a new world Fareed speaks with CNN about President Barack Obama’s decision to cancel a meeting next month with Russian President Vladimir Putin, U.S.-Russia ties, and the biggest threats to U.S. national security. Do you think listening to members of his own party, concerned about weakness abroad,…
A credibility trap is when the lies and the corruption become so widespread and embedded in a system that they become self-sustaining. It is when almost half of all Congressmen remain in the Capitol after leaving office so that they can make many millions per year peddling influence and crafting loopholes for corporations who are…
10 reasons millennials are screwed Generation gaps are nothing new. Back in the 1930s, members of the World War I generation complained bitterly about their World War II generation offspring and all the swing-dancing, noisy big bands and awful crooners they were into (many of those jitterbugging teenagers of the 1930s went…
Why Fukushima is worse than you think By Mycle Schneider, Special to CNN Editor’s note: Mycle Schneider is an independent international consultant on energy and nuclear policy based in Paris. He is the coordinator and lead author of the World Nuclear Industry Status Report. The views expressed are his own. “Careless” was how…