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The end of the world as we know it

There’s ways and means of breaking bad news. The Torino scale is used to describe the potential impact of an asteroid colliding with the Earth, and it’s had a makeover:

Under the old system, a level 10 warning used to be described as “causing global climatic disaster.” The new description reads “a certain collision capable of causing global climatic catastrophe that may threaten the future of civilization as we know it.”

16 April 2005

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