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To: i-node who wrote (985856)	12/6/2016 11:59:57 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578486

I'm a believer, Dave. If you really believe 'cyber war is a bigger threat today than nuclear war ever was' you truly are an idiot. historynewsnetwork.org nucleardarkness.org

To: i-node who wrote (985856)	12/6/2016 7:21:10 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578486

Humans Have Made 30 Trillion Tons of Stuff That's 110 pounds per square meter of the Earth's surface By Michael Harthorne, Newser Staff newser.com (NEWSER) – Humans have built a ton of things to keep us alive on this twirling little rock: farms, airports, roads, CDs, houses, computers, landfills, and so forth. All these things are known as the technosphere, and for the first time ever—in a study published last month in the Anthropocene Review—scientists have estimated their total weight: an impressive 30 trillion tons. According to Forbes, that's "enough to add another good-sized mountain to the Appalachians, or perhaps even to the Rockies." Or as a press release breaks it down, it's roughly 110 pounds per square meter of the Earth's surface. Researchers say the technosphere is a "major new phenomenon on this planet" that is "evolving extraordinarily rapidly." It's also a handy means of measuring how much humans have shaped the planet. Scientists argue that the sheer scale of the technosphere is convincing evidence that we're living in a new, as-yet-unofficial geologic epoch known as the "Anthropocene," Gizmodo reports. The quickest way to be recognized as an epoch is to have a discernible fossil record, and due to the fact that the technosphere is—unlike the biosphere—"remarkably poor at recycling its own materials," that shouldn't be a problem. If "technofossils" from the Anthropocene were classified like normal fossils, there would more than a billion different types, outnumbering the types of species currently alive. (Scientists say Earth entered a new age around 1950.)

To: i-node who wrote (985856)	12/7/2016 12:01:39 PM
From: bentway	Respond to of 1578486

Experts have warned of a $100bn (£79bn) "protection gap" in the global insurance sector as a result of the rising impact of climate risks. ClimateWise, based at the University of Cambridge, warned that the gap of uninsured or under-insured assets had quadrupled over the past three decades. The insurance sector's role as society's risk manager was under threat, warned one senior figure. The network outlined its findings in two reports published on Wednesday. "What we have seen is that over the past 30 years, as societal exposure to climate change has increased, is that the traditional response of insurance - which is to reassess, re-underwrite, and reprice - is almost becoming the sector's Achilles heel if you like because it is repricing itself out of risk but it is not addressing the root cause of the problem, which is that society is increasingly vulnerable to climate risks and it is in need of enhancing its resilience," explained ClimateWIse programme manager Tom Herbstein. He said the protection gap was the difference between total economic loss and the value of assets that were covered by insurance policies. "We have seen this gap open up from about US $23bn about 30 years ago to over US $100bn today," Dr Herbstein told BBC News.