| Sure you care enough for the environment you | | | | the Royal Society in London. |
| segregate your wastes at home, teach your kids | | | | As well as the threat posed by the worlds 27,000 |
| not to litter candy wrappers just anywhere, | | | | nuclear weapons, the scientists pointed to global |
| make sure your cars emission parts are in good | | | | warming as a new and serious contributor to |
| condition. But what will you say when respected | | | | potential apocalypse. |
| scientists are now saying that apocalypse is at | | | | The dangers posed by climate change are nearly |
| hand? | | | | as dire as those posed by nuclear weapons. The |
| According to the website which aims to approach | | | | effects may be less dramatic in the short term |
| the challenge of climate change with a positive | | | | than the destruction that could be wrought by |
| and informative attitude, the apocalypse is being | | | | nuclear explosions, but over the next three to |
| heralded not by lunatics in white robes, but by | | | | four decades climate change could cause |
| sober and respected scientists. | | | | irremediable harm to the habitats upon which |
| An article at the website reports that members | | | | human societies depend for survival, the |
| of the Bulletin Of Atomic Scientists have today | | | | statement from the BAS read. |
| moved the minute hand of their Doomsday Clock | | | | So what are the facts? Every year, according to |
| two minutes closer to the midnight Moment Of | | | | Global Cool, over 26.5 billion tonnes of CO2 is |
| Doom, with climate change being cited as a major | | | | emitted around the world. Add an annual increase |
| cause of their pessimism. | | | | of 0.5 billion tonnes, and it is predicted that we are |
| In 1947 the symbolic clock was set up to warn | | | | fast approaching the point at which the global |
| the world how close it was to self-destruction | | | | climate will become irreversibly unstable. |
| during the then Cold War, with midnight being the | | | | The scary thing is that the general consensus |
| moment of global atomic conflict. The clock | | | | amongst scientists is that we are now only a |
| started at seven minutes to midnight, and has got | | | | decade away from this point with salvation |
| as close as two minutes to in 1953. There have | | | | coming in the form of a seemingly impossible |
| been 17 alterations since the clock was founded. | | | | reduction of our CO2 emissions by a minimum of |
| The decision to move the minute hand to 11.55 | | | | one billion tonnes per year. And that isnt even a |
| was taken by the BAS board of directors and | | | | permanent reprieve but only a buy out time for |
| sponsors, which includes no less than 18 Nobel | | | | us to develop long-term solutions to the problem. |
| Laureates, and was announced at a joint news | | | | What to do? Maybe a visit to sites like Global Cool |
| conference at both the Association for the | | | | would help. |
| Advancement of Science in Washington DC, and | | | | |