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