Global uncertainty on how to deal with the threats of nuclear weapons and climate change have forced the “Doomsday clock” one minute closer to midnight, leading international scientists said Tuesday. “It is now five minutes to midnight,” said Allison Macfarlan, chair of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, which created the Doomsday clock in 1947 [...]
Posts Tagged ‘global warming’
The End is somewhat Nigher than before
Posted: January 11, 2012 in Political musingsTags: Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, conflict, conflict resolution, doomsday clock, Fukushima, global warming, international relations, nuclear war, Obama, politics
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Nothing to this global warming crap: go to sleep, everyone, go to sleeeeeeeep …
Posted: December 28, 2011 in Humour, Political musingsTags: Australia, global warming, Melbourne, Melbourne heatwave, New Years, politics, weather
Nightmare storms on Christmas Day, and now …. http://m.theage.com.au/victoria/new-year-set-to-ring-in-swelter-of-the-century-20111228-1pcan.html Sheesh. Roll on bushfires, flash floods et al. Personally, I am staying in the pool for two days, wrinkly fingers or no wrinkly fingers.
Climate change “sceptic science” – it’s all the fault of the clouds? – er, sorry, no.
Posted: September 4, 2011 in Political musings, Popular Culture et alTags: bbc report, climate change, climate change sceptics, climate science, Dr Roy Spencer, global warming, Remote Sensing magazine, University of Alabama
OK: that paper that delighted climate sceptics recently jumped on to prove that global warming isn’t as bad as we thought, and might not be man made? Well, despite the author’s claim that he stands by it, it turns out it’s almost certainly bollocks. Well there’s a surprise. Oh, and it’s from a scientist who is [...]
