[MLUG - DISCUSSION] last days

[Mike Miller <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Fri, 1 Sep 2006, Mike Miller wrote:

> Did anyone see the special 2-hour episode of 20/20 on the "last days" on 
> Earth?  They obviously wanted to appeal to Christians who are thinking 
> about this these days, but the show seems to be all about science and 
> what it says about how life will end on Earth.  I have it in TiVo but 
> haven't watched it yet.  More here:
>
> http://abcnews.go.com/2020/story?id=2319986


I finished watching it last night.  It had a few interesting things in it 
but not much that I wasn't aware of.  The interesting thing was that their 
#1 threat to our survival on Earth was not asteroids, nuclear weapons, 
viral pandemic, bioterrorism or volcanic explosion (e.g., Yellowstone 
caldera), or a roving black hole, all of which were considered.  The #1 
threat was global warming and climate change.

Scientists they interviewed said that it is now established that global 
warming is happening and that it is caused by human activity.  They also 
said that the dozen-or-so scientists who persist in making claims to the 
contrary are no more credible than Holocaust deniers and some of them are 
being paid to lie by the energy industry.

Mike

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