Archive for December 7th, 2009
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UN Climate Change Conference
December 7
Hour 1
For the next twelve days, world leaders, negotiators, and scientists will meet in Copenhagen at the UN Climate Change Conference to try to iron out an international agreement to combat global warming. Some have called the conference the most important meeting since the end of World War II, our final chance to prevent climate disaster; however, it is unlikely that the talks will produce a legally binding treaty. This hour, we get an overview of the conference and the issues from a Time science reporter BRYAN WALSH and climate scientist MICHAEL OPPENHEIMER of Princeton University.
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Free Range Kids
December 7
Hour 2
How much independence should we give our young children? In 2008 writer LENORE SKENAZY intentionally let her nine-year old son ride the subway alone in Manhattan and wrote about it in her column in the New York Sun. Soon after a flurry of interviews and appearances on TV talk shows, Skenazy’s name came up in Google as “America’s Worst Mom." Skenazy's response to her experience and her op-ed observations of over-sensitive parenting has become a book: "Free Range Kids: Giving our Kids the Freedom We Enjoyed Without Going Nuts with Worry."
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UN Climate Change Conference December 7
Hour 1 For the next twelve days, world leaders, negotiators, and scientists will meet in Copenhagen at the UN Climate Change Conference to try to iron out an international agreement to combat global warming. Some have called the conference the most important meeting since the end of World War II, our final chance to prevent climate disaster; however, it is unlikely that the talks will produce a legally binding treaty. This hour, we get an overview of the conference and the issues from a Time science reporter BRYAN WALSH and climate scientist MICHAEL OPPENHEIMER of Princeton University. -
Free Range Kids December 7
Hour 2 How much independence should we give our young children? In 2008 writer LENORE SKENAZY intentionally let her nine-year old son ride the subway alone in Manhattan and wrote about it in her column in the New York Sun. Soon after a flurry of interviews and appearances on TV talk shows, Skenazy’s name came up in Google as “America’s Worst Mom." Skenazy's response to her experience and her op-ed observations of over-sensitive parenting has become a book: "Free Range Kids: Giving our Kids the Freedom We Enjoyed Without Going Nuts with Worry."
