Ex-Defense Secretary Gates says Russia unlikely to use nuclear weapons: Live Ukraine updates Jorge L. Ortiz and Jordan Mendoza, USA TODAY - 1h ago

Even if Russia's war in Ukraine is going much worse than expected, Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely to use a nuclear weapon ""The risk is low, but not zero," said former US Secretary of Defense and CIA Director Robert Gates on Sunday. Gates said on CBS' "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" that Russia's use of a tactical weapon would elicit a strong response from the West, including the establishment of a no-fly zone over Ukrainian skies. Furthermore, he stated that such a move would be futile "change the military equation on the ground" because Ukrainian forces are widely dispersed and fiercely resisting. "Another thing I hope someone reminds Putin of is that winds tend to blow from the west in that part of the world, particularly in eastern Ukraine," Gates said. "If you detonate a tactical nuclear weapon in eastern Ukraine, the radiation will reach Russia." Start the day smarter. Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Gates, who served as defense secretary under Republican President George W. Bush and Democratic President Barack Obama from 2006 to 2011, said the Biden administration should have begun arming Ukraine months earlier in preparation for a conflict with Russia. But he praises President Joe Biden for rallying America's allies and assembling a coalition to confront Russia, resisting calls for a no-fly zone — which would necessitate more intervention — and refusing to bite on Putin's nuclear threats.Gates stated that Western sanctions and failures on the battlefield have dealt a significant blow to Russia and its global standing. "Putin will remain a pariah," Gates added "He has really put Russia behind the eight ball economically, militarily, and because now people will look at the Russian military and say, "You know, this was supposed to be this fantastic military." They put on a good show, but not so much in actual combat.'" Latest developments: Russia escalated its offensive in eastern Ukraine on Sunday, as Polish President Andrzej Duda visited Kyiv to support Poland's European Union ambitions, becoming the first foreign leader to address the Ukrainian parliament since the war began. According to Reuters, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz has stated that he will "work actively" to enable grain exports from Ukraine and to supply fertilizer to Ukraine. Russia has shut down Black Sea ports critical to the export of Ukrainian wheat and other crops. Biden and Harris are on Russia's blacklist, but not Trump. In response to the United States' support for the Ukraine war, Russia has barred nearly 1,000 Americans from entering the country permanently. The list includes numerous elected leaders but conspicuously excludes one prominent one — former President Donald Trump. President Joe Biden, Vice President Kamala Harris, Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, and House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy were among the 963 people who were barred from entering Russia as a symbolic gesture. Recent living former presidents such as Barack Obama and George W. Bush were not included on the list, but Trump's name stands out because he has been accused of being too cozy with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Trump mentioned Putin's strategy two days before the February 24 invasion.

People who fled from Mariupol wait to leave after being processed upon their arrival at a reception center for displaced people in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine, late Sunday, May 8, 2022. Thousands of Ukrainians continue to leave Russian-occupied areas. sad very sad

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The biological and geological future of Earth can be extrapolated based upon the estimated effects of several long-term influences. These include the chemistry at Earth's surface, the rate of cooling of the planet's interior, the gravitational interactions with other objects in the Solar System, and a steady increase in the Sun's luminosity. An uncertain factor in this extrapolation is the ongoing influence of technology introduced by humans, such as climate engineering, which could cause significant changes to the planet. The current Holocene extinction is being caused by technology and the effects may last for up to five million years. In turn, technology may result in the extinction of humanity, leaving the planet to gradually return to a slower evolutionary pace resulting solely from long-term natural processes.

Over time intervals of hundreds of millions of years, random celestial events pose a global risk to the biosphere, which can result in mass extinctions. These include impacts by comets or asteroids with diameters of 5–10 km (3.1–6.2 mi) or more, and the possibility of a massive stellar explosion, called a supernova, within a 100-light-year radius of the Sun, called a Near-Earth supernova. Other large-scale geological events are more predictable. If the long-term effects of global warming are disregarded, Milankovitch theory predicts that the planet will continue to undergo glacial periods at least until the Quaternary glaciation comes to an end. These periods are caused by eccentricity, axial tilt, and precession of the Earth's orbit. As part of the ongoing super-continent cycle, plate tectonics will probably result in a super-continent in 250–350 million years. Some time in the next 1.5–4.5 billion years, the axial tilt of the Earth may begin to undergo chaotic variations, with changes in the axial tilt of up to 90°.

During the next four billion years, the luminosity of the Sun will steadily increase, resulting in a rise in the solar radiation reaching the Earth. This will result in a higher rate of weathering of silicate minerals, which will cause a decrease in the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In about 600 million years from now, the level of CO2 will fall below the level needed to sustain C3 carbon fixation photosynthesis used by trees. Some plants use the C4 carbon fixation method, allowing them to persist at CO2 concentrations as low as 10 parts per million. However, the long-term trend is for plant life to die off altogether. The extinction of plants will be the demise of almost all animal life, since plants are the base of the food chain on Earth.

In about one billion years, the solar luminosity will be 10% higher than at present. This will cause the atmosphere to become a "moist greenhouse", resulting in a runaway evaporation of the oceans. As a likely consequence, plate tectonics will come to an end, and with them the entire carbon cycle. Following this event, in about 2−3 billion years, the planet's magnetic dynamo may cease, causing the magnetosphere to decay and leading to an accelerated loss of volatile s from the outer atmosphere. Four billion years from now, the increase in the Earth's surface temperature will cause a runaway greenhouse effect, heating the surface enough to melt it. By that point, all life on the Earth will be extinct. The most probable fate of the planet is absorption by the Sun in about 7.5 billion years, after the star has entered the red giant phase and expanded to cross the planet's current orbit.

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