<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif">On Sun, May 1, 2016 at  Rafal Smigrodzki </span><span dir="ltr" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"><<a href="mailto:rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com" target="_blank">rafal.smigrodzki@gmail.com</a>></span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif"> wrote:</span><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote"><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​> ​</div>I came across the following:<div><a href="http://globalprioritiesproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Global-Catastrophic-Risk-Annual-Report-2016-FINAL.pdf" target="_blank">http://globalprioritiesproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/Global-Catastrophic-Risk-Annual-Report-2016-FINAL.pdf</a><br></div><div><div><br></div><div>### It lists global warming (renamed "climate change") right at the top, even ahead of nuclear war. Really? This is so ridiculous it beggars imagination.</div></div></div></blockquote><div class="gmail_quote"><br></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">​<font size="4">In the March 31 issue of Nature <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​there ​</div>is a article about sea level rise caused by global warming<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​,​</div> and the news is twice as bad as previously thought, we only have 84 years to prepare for a rise between 25 and 45 inches. Well that might cause a few headaches but its not exactly a<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​n​</div> existential threat; <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​the sea has risen 400 FEET since </div>the peak of the last ice age 20,000 years ago<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​,</div> <div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​and ​during that time </div>the human race not only survived it thrived.  </font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><font size="4">Homo sapiens<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline">​ has also gone through sea rise, glaciers, pandemics, and 2 </div></font><span style="font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">super volcanoes<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">​, b</div></span><span style="font-size:large;font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">ut a nuclear war <div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">​could​</div> kill civilization and maybe even our species.<div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline">​ It remains our greatest danger.​</div></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="4"><br></font></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;display:inline"><font size="4">​ John K Clark ​</font></div><br></span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">       ​</div><br><br><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div>