FACED with the threat of the millennium bug crashing the world's computers, some people bought blankets and hurricane lamps and headed for the hills. Others paid software engineers to fix the bug.
Yet when 1999 turned to 2000, no aircraft fell from the skies, no governments collapsed and no missiles inadvertently triggered a nuclear holocaust. As
For a real millennial disaster, however, computer glitches cannot hold a candle to global warming.
For the past decade at least,
In the past half century, humanity has inadvertently interfered with the Earth's carbon cycle. We now have a hand on ...
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