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**EzequielTMann** · 01-18-2007, 01:11 PM

Nuclear bombs/proliferation and global warming/the human attitude towards it are two major concerns according to the article.

Yeah, I buy it. I don't think anyone doubts nuclear proliferation, and there's such a mountain of evidence for global warming that people who deny it's happening are doing so either for political reasons or for head-in-the-sand reasons. Nuclear, and the world changes dramatically and suddenly; global warming, and the world changes dramatically and not-so-suddenly. Either way, the planet is changed, and not for the better.

Yes, adding "global warming" to the Doomsday Clock gets them more press coverage. But that doesn't mean it isn't completely legitimate to add something to the clock that over time could have similar results for the planet that a nuclear war could have.

Just a couple of weeks ago it was reported - Ancient ice shelf breaks free from Canadian Arctic - that "A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic, scientists said."

Warwick Vincent of Laval University, who studies Arctic conditions, traveled to the newly formed ice island and could not believe what he saw.

"This is a dramatic and disturbing event. It shows that we are losing remarkable features of the Canadian North that have been in place for many thousands of years. We are crossing climate thresholds, and these may signal the onset of accelerated change ahead," Vincent said Thursday.

01-18-2007, 01:11 PM	#5
EzequielTMann Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 561 Senior Member	Nuclear bombs/proliferation and global warming/the human attitude towards it are two major concerns according to the article. Yeah, I buy it. I don't think anyone doubts nuclear proliferation, and there's such a mountain of evidence for global warming that people who deny it's happening are doing so either for political reasons or for head-in-the-sand reasons. Nuclear, and the world changes dramatically and suddenly; global warming, and the world changes dramatically and not-so-suddenly. Either way, the planet is changed, and not for the better. Yes, adding "global warming" to the Doomsday Clock gets them more press coverage. But that doesn't mean it isn't completely legitimate to add something to the clock that over time could have similar results for the planet that a nuclear war could have. Just a couple of weeks ago it was reported - Ancient ice shelf breaks free from Canadian Arctic - that "A giant ice shelf the size of 11,000 football fields has snapped free from Canada's Arctic, scientists said." Warwick Vincent of Laval University, who studies Arctic conditions, traveled to the newly formed ice island and could not believe what he saw. "This is a dramatic and disturbing event. It shows that we are losing remarkable features of the Canadian North that have been in place for many thousands of years. We are crossing climate thresholds, and these may signal the onset of accelerated change ahead," Vincent said Thursday.
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