Entering The Secret World Of Wikileaks | Georgia Public Broadcasting

The website Wikileaks publishes secret documents submitted by anonymous sources and makes them available to the public. The site, which went public in January 2007, has been compared to Daniel Ellsberg's leaking of the Pentagon Papers in 1971.

The website has leaked a variety of formerly secret documents, including "everything from investigative reports about corruption in the nation of Kenya to manuals from the Church of Scientology to Sarah Palin's hacked e-mails," explains journalist Philip Shenon. "They very famously released the so-called Climategate memos [but not famously enough for me to hear about it] that were from a group of climate scientists that were seized upon by a group of conservatives to argue that global warming was a fraud."

[Settled science]: Montana State researchers say Triceratops, Torsaurus were same dinosaur at different stages | R&D Mag

BOZEMAN, Mont. -- Research by a Montana State University doctoral student and one of the nation's top paleontologists is upending more than 100 years of thought regarding the dinosaurs known as Triceratops and Torosaurus.

Qualified Plumbers Can Combat Climate Change

Improving Britain's water efficiency is one way that qualified plumbers can play a key role in the fight against climate change.

Lord Prescott: Gordon Brown was unrealistic on climate change

The new Baron Prescott of Kingston-upon-Hull said the previous Labour government had been naive to believe a legally binding agreement could be secured just because a “few leaders turned up” to last year’s Copenhagen climate change summit.

In a surprising attack on Mr Brown, he told peers: “Copenhagen was not a success but its expectations were too high in hoping for a legally enforceable agreement.
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During the debate, on low carbon technologies, Lord Prescott warned that the new Government risked making the same mistake by continuing to insist that a legally-binding deal was possible at the next round of talks in Cancun, Mexico, in December.

He urged David Cameron to back a voluntary agreement instead.