02-03-2007, 12:55 PM
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| Guest | Re: Do you see the connection b/ Global Warming and Armageddon?
On Feb 3, 2:17 pm, Mark Hickey <m...@habcycles.com> wrote:
> "donquijote1954" <nolionnoprob...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> >Can Humanity Survive? Want to Bet on It?
> >Sixty ago years, a group of physicists concerned about nuclear weapons
> >created the Doomsday Clock and set its hands at seven minutes to
> >midnight. Now, the clock's keepers, alarmed by new dangers like
> >climate change, have moved the hands up to 11:55 p.m.
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> So one minute = 30 years on the "doomsday clock". That means by your
> logic we only have 150 years to go before extinction. Since
> implementing all the Kyoto protocol is only gonna make a small
> fraction of a degree difference in the temperature (if that) in the
> next century and half anyway, I guess the best thing to do is just
> give up and wait patiently for the end to come.
"over the next three to four decades climate change could cause
irremediable harm"
It's 30 to 40 years, so you or your children will feel it. Then they
would spit on your tomb --and possibly pee on it.
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists Adjusts Clock From 7 to 5 Minutes
Before Midnight; " Deteriorating" Global Situation Cited on Nuclear
Weapons and New Factor: Climate Change.
WASHINGTON, D.C. and LONDON, ENGLAND /// January 17, 2007 /// The
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS) is moving the minute hand of
the Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight. It is now 5 minutes
to midnight. Reflecting global failures to solve the problems posed by
nuclear weapons and the climate crisis, the decision by the BAS Board
of Directors was made in consultation with the Bulletin's Board of
Sponsors, which includes 18 Nobel Laureates.
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The BAS statement continues: "The dangers posed by climate change are
nearly as dire as those posed by nuclear weapons. The effects may be
less dramatic in the short term than the destruction that could be
wrought by nuclear explosions, but over the next three to four decades
climate change could cause irremediable harm to the habitats upon
which human societies depend for survival."
Stephen Hawking, a BAS sponsor, professor of mathematics at the
University of Cambridge, and a fellow of The Royal Society, said: "As
scientists, we understand the dangers of nuclear weapons and their
devastating effects, and we are learning how human activities and
technologies are affecting climate systems in ways that may forever
change life on Earth. As citizens of the world, we have a duty to
alert the public to the unnecessary risks that we live with every day,
and to the perils we foresee if governments and societies do not take
action now to render nuclear weapons obsolete and to prevent further
climate change."
http://www.thebulletin.org/weekly-hi.../20070117.html
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