This from the Land That Brought Us Teletubbies?

It seems when the sun set on the British Empire, it created clouds in the world view of many citizens. Some of the recent gloomy forecasts coming out of England's best minds are:

--WAVE OF DOOM? Earlier this month, a scientist at University College, London, raised concerns that part of the Cumbre Vieja volcano on one of the Canary Islands could fall into the ocean, creating a giant wave that would annihilate large swaths of the U.S. Eastern Seaboard. "If I was living in Miami or New York and I heard that the Cumbre Vieja was erupting, I would keep a...

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