Thursday, 18. January 2007

Hawking warns: We must recognise the catastrophic dangers of climate change


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.

independent.co.uk

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