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Thu 01 Jan 2010Time to get over our hang-up about nuclear power
In the wake of the Copenhagen failure, we are looking into the abyss of runaway global warming this century
RUSSIA’S SPACE agency is now preparing to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to prevent a possible strike by a 270-metre asteroid later this century. The odds on such a collision are long; Nasa reckons it’s one in 250,000, but given the scale of the downside from even a remote risk like this, the precautionary principle applies. In other words, better safe than sorry.
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