Climate Change As Threatening As Nuclear War? Tick-Tock Goes The Doomsday Clock

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Posted to SciTech on Wed Jan 24, 2007 at 02:00:39 PM EST (promoted by 1fastdog). RSS.

The board of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the group which maintains the "Doomsday Clock," has moved the hand of the clock forward once again, to five minutes to midnight. The group has also expanded its mandate; as the Bulletin's editor Mark Strauss told The Associated Press, "There's a realization that we are changing our climate for the worse," he said, "That would have catastrophic effects. Although the threat is not as dire as that of nuclear weapons right now, in the long term we are looking at a serious threat."

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