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Something else to worry about

Something else to worry about

By Brian on March 26, 2009

If we could only solve global warming and climate change then we could go back to just worrying about asteroid strikes and supervolcano eruptions as threats to human civilisation. Or so I thought. But consider this: In September of 1859, [...]

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