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