Russia's Troubles

``MOSCOW — As if things in Russia were not looking sufficiently apocalyptic already, with 100-degree temperatures and noxious fumes rolling in from burning peat bogs and forests, there is growing alarm here that fires in regions coated with fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster 24 years ago could now be emitting plumes of radioactive smoke.''

Taken from NYT.

Stephen Hawking recently told an audience to flee Earth in less than 200 years. I wonder if he has to change his estimates now.