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January 18, 2007

Snow in California? Has to be Doomsday

jp @ 5:06 pm

From SkyNews

The normally sunny Malibu, which last week was gripped by wildfires, got a dusting of snow, bringing travel chaos to the region.

In Valencia, 30 miles north of Los Angeles downtown, people were seen rushing around with video cameras to capture the rare sight of snow.

Meteorologists said it was the first time in more than 20 years that snow had fallen there.

The unusual cold snap followed several nights of freezing conditions in northern and central California that have caused £500m losses among crops of oranges, strawberries and avocados.

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has been out and about examining the effect of the weather on citrus crops.

He has declared a state of emergency in 10 counties.

Thats it America keep bringing your kids to school in those tanks you drive. This weather is only the begining, Doomsday is coming! The Atomic Scientists are also warning us that it is getting late on in the day and it’s nearly midnight on the doomsday clock.

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Since 1947, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has maintained the so-called Doomsday Clock. The symbolic timepiece measures how close mankind is to midnight, which represents total destruction of the Earth.

“Not since the first atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, has the world faced such perilous choices,” she said. “North Korea’s recent test of a nuclear weapon, Iran’s nuclear ambitions, a renewed emphasis on the military utility of nuclear weapons, the failure to adequately secure nuclear materials, and the continued presence of some 26,000 nuclear weapons in the United States and Russia, are symptomatic of a failure to solve the problems posed by some the most destructive technology on Earth.”

Kennette Benedict said this time, nuclear annihilation is not the scientists’ only concern.

“The dangers posed by climate change are nearly as dire as those posed by nuclear weapons,” she added. “The effects may be less dramatic in the short term, than the destruction that could be wrought by nuclear explosions, but over the next three to four decades, climate change could cause irremediable harm to the habitats upon which human societies depend for survival.”

Full story on that here, here and here. Official Site. Thanks Choda

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1 Comment

  1. it’s not just the Americans though is it… those ‘tanks’ seem to be ever increasingly popular here too… must be the celtic tiger…

    why why why do people have such fragile egos that they need to drive these things to show off how effluent they are…?

    typo intentional.

    Comment by frankp — January 19, 2007 @ 2:37 am

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