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Climate resets 'Doomsday Clock'
BBC ^ | 17 January 2007 | BBC

Posted on 01/17/2007 8:40:12 AM PST by Westlander

Experts assessing the dangers posed to civilisation have added climate change to the prospect of nuclear annihilation as the greatest threats to humankind.

As a result, the group has moved the minute hand on its famous "Doomsday Clock" two minutes closer to midnight.

(Excerpt) Read more at news.bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: climate; climatechange; clock; doomsday
Hopefully the clock will ring during Gores' Oscar speech.
1 posted on 01/17/2007 8:40:13 AM PST by Westlander
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To: Westlander

Bull crap!!!

Here is the proper "clock" to be watching....

http://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/DP.CLOCK.HTM


2 posted on 01/17/2007 8:41:10 AM PST by Names Ash Housewares
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To: Westlander
I had a Doomsday clock once.......it broke!
3 posted on 01/17/2007 8:43:01 AM PST by Jeffrey_D. (Seek first to understand, then to be understood)
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To: Westlander

4 posted on 01/17/2007 8:43:13 AM PST by keithtoo (How come America's enemies and the Dimocrats always find common cause?)
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To: keithtoo

5 posted on 01/17/2007 8:48:13 AM PST by Westlander (Unleash the Neutron Bomb)
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To: Westlander

How does climate change result in a doomsday scenerio? Even if the bogus chicken little claims come true, we mostly lose the coastal areas to flooding or perhaps we go into some ice age depending on which week the prediction is made. Either way we still survive.


6 posted on 01/17/2007 8:49:37 AM PST by Always Right
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To: Westlander
Yeah. We're all gonna get torched by global warming.
(Please disregard the ice storms hiding behind the curtain. They are not our friends)
7 posted on 01/17/2007 8:50:54 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal.")
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To: Westlander

Doomed.


8 posted on 01/17/2007 9:12:57 AM PST by wbill
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To: Westlander

The days of hiding under the bed for fear of a MADD nuclear exchange are past, so these jerks have found a new way to hit a nerve and get themselves front paged in the press. Duh . . . global warming!

I have nothing but contempt for scientists who build their careers on telling people what they want to hear. The grant money rolls in, the publicity warms their little hearts, and the hell with scientific objectivity.


9 posted on 01/17/2007 9:14:52 AM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Westlander

Is the Doomsday Clock on Standard or Daylight Savings Time?


10 posted on 01/17/2007 9:26:59 AM PST by 6SJ7
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To: Westlander

So does the headline mean that a stong wind altered the clock hands??


11 posted on 01/17/2007 10:01:59 AM PST by rod1
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To: Westlander

Man do I get tired of these little self-annointed high priests and their pompous pontifications.


12 posted on 01/17/2007 10:04:02 AM PST by Free Vulcan (Show them no mercy, for you shall receive none!)
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To: Westlander

I miss Uncle Bill !!!


13 posted on 01/17/2007 10:25:35 AM PST by Jeffrey_D. (Seek first to understand, then to be understood)
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To: Westlander

There have been several threads. Global Warming, not to be confused with global warming, has indeed been added to total thermonuclear annihilation as a danger to humanity on earth. It is like adding hurrricane and earthquake and citric freeze relief to the job description of Civil Defense and renaming it FEMA.


14 posted on 01/17/2007 10:29:21 AM PST by RightWhale
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To: Westlander

When asked why they took this bold step, the pinheads of the BAS responded. "...we hope this gets us invited to the posh cocktail parties."


15 posted on 01/17/2007 12:56:31 PM PST by JerseyHighlander
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To: Westlander

Bush's fault.


16 posted on 01/17/2007 7:22:59 PM PST by anniegetyourgun
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