Saturday, January 20, 2007

Climate atomic nausea


“Climate change stands alongside the use of nuclear weapons as one of the greatest threats posed to the future of the world, the Cambridge cosmologist Stephen Hawking has said. Professor Hawking said that we stand on the precipice of a second nuclear age and a period of exceptional climate change, both of which could destroy the planet as we know it.” Steve Connor, Science Editor, The Independent, 18 January 2007.