… two minutes closer to midnight …

Quote of the Day — 30 January 2011

” 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…

… “Whether it’s a threat of the same magnitude or slightly less or greater is beside the point,” said Michael Oppenheimer, a geoscientist from Princeton University, US.

“The important point is that this organisation, which for 60 years has been monitoring and warning us about the nuclear threat, now recognises climate change as a threat that deserves the same level of attention,” he said. …”

— Molly Bentley
— Climate resets ‘Doomsday Clock’
— BBC News

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