Questions for a Warming World
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on May 14th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
Questions for a Warming World
Michael Gerson, RealClearPolitics
WASHINGTON — Americans have something of a science problem. They swallow, for example, about billion worth of vitamins each year, even though the Annals of Internal Medicine recently concluded that “most supplements do not prevent chronic disease or death, their use is not justified, and they should be avoided.” Americans often fear swallowing genetically modified plants (and Vermont has recently required GMO content to be labeled), though GMOs have “been consumed by hundreds of millions of people across the world for more than 15 years, with no reported ill effects,” according the…
A Nightmare Group in Syria
David Ignatius, RealClearPolitics
WASHINGTON — The chamber of horrors of the Syrian civil war has spawned a terrorist group so extreme that it has been rejected even by al-Qaeda — and this toxic group is now establishing a safe haven in the city of Raqqah in northern Syria that could soon be used to attack foreign targets. The hyper-militant terrorist group is known in the West as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. Its efforts to establish a Muslim caliphate that spans the two countries, and to absorb another al-Qaeda offshoot known as the al-Nusra Front, brought a rebuke a year ago from al-Qaeda’s chief, Ayman…
