CCD Editor’s Note: Further proof the Doomsday Clock is a politicized weapon without any scientific purpose, despite being maintained by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists.
The world is two minutes from total annihilation, scientists warned Thursday as they moved the ominous “Doomsday Clock” ahead to its most dangerous point since the 1950s.
Explaining its decision, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists said the world’s failure to act on climate change, President Trump’s rhetoric about nuclear weapons, the North Korean threat, and U.S.-Russia tensions are to blame.
“In 2017, world leaders failed to respond effectively to the looming threats of nuclear war and climate change, making the world security situation more dangerous than it was a year ago — and as dangerous as it has been since World War II,” the scientists said in a statement.
The organization cited a host of foreign policy issues in making the change, the first adjustment since January 2017 when scientists bumped the clock up to two minutes and 30 seconds to midnight. The scientists specifically said uncertainty about the Iran nuclear deal, “escalating rhetoric” between Pakistan and India, tension in the South China Sea, North Korea’s nuclear ambitions, and other international matters make the world an especially dangerous place.
Another key driver, they said, is the failure of global leaders to adequately address global warming.
“On the climate change front, the danger may seem less immediate, but avoiding catastrophic temperature increases in the long run requires urgent attention now,” the scientists said. “The nations of the world will have to significantly decrease their greenhouse gas emissions to keep climate risks manageable, and so far, the global response has fallen far short of meeting this challenge.”
Mr. Trump last summer withdrew the U.S. from a global climate change agreement, saying the deal harmed the American economy and let major polluters, such as China, off the hook. Critics argue that decision will have long-lasting ramifications in the fight against global warming.
The Doomsday Clock began in 1947 as a method of measuring how close the world is to complete and total collapse. It measures the likelihood of war and a host of other concerns.
Its first iteration put the clock at seven minutes to midnight. By 1953, amid concerns of nuclear war between the U.S. and Soviet Union, scientists said the world was just two minutes from destruction.
In 2010, the clock was set at six minutes to midnight and has accelerated since then.
“It is now two minutes to midnight — the closest the Clock has ever been to Doomsday, and as close as it was in 1953, at the height of the Cold War,” said Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
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I realy wish someone would rip the hands off that idiotic Doomsday Clock and stuff them down Al Bores throat these liberal politicians are getting more idiotic all the time
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists informs the public about risks from nuclear weapons, climate change, & emerging technologies. The Doomsday Clock began in 1947 as a method of measuring how close the world is to complete and total collapse. It measures the likelihood of war and a host of other concerns.
“The world is two minutes from total annihilation, scientists warned Thursday”
“It is now two minutes to midnight (AGAIN!!)— the closest the Clock has ever been to Doomsday, and as close as it was in 1953, at the height of the Cold War,”
“Further proof the Doomsday Clock is a politicized weapon without any scientific purpose”
Did we really need proof the Doomsday Clock is a politicized weapon without any scientific purpose???? Three clues………#1 “they say” is not science proof. #2 it’s not a real clock. #3 your reading this because they have been wrong EVERY FRIGGIN TIME!
Armageddon is as old as the Bible.
Statistically speaking, the so-called “doomsday clock” is just as close to 12am as it is 12pm. I agree, it is utter nonsense and purely political.
Well sooner or later they will be right and the Dinosaurs can return too . They loved the heat and high CO2 environment .
Who says humans need to be around anyways ? Maybe that’s the point.. the doomsday clock goes to one minute only after the humans are gone .
Yesterday, I found a time capsule of sorts, from my dad, dated October, 1955. Part of it read
..”raining cats and dogs….atomic age is ten years old….Eisenhower had a heart attack last week…United Nations is afraid of starting WW III….”
The more things change, the more they stay the same.
For some unknown reason I received a lot of mail in the 1984 1985 time frame from The Union of Concerned Scientists. Then the concern was potential nuclear war with the Soviet Union and they were advocating nuclear disbarment. I got one letter making a big deal about the clock being moved to two minutes before midnight, so it has been there before.
This is part of continuing pattern. There is a continuous string of dire predictions that never come true by liberals promoting their political agendas.
The so called Union of Concerened Scienists are just a a tiny handful of political activists their scientific knowlage is very small but their push for the New World Order is very high its a wonder Bill Nye is’nt a member if he already is,nt
doomsday clock
club of rome
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of what authority
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And most likely when Trump was elected they moved that hands closer to midnight and when Trump rejected the Paris Accord a few more minutes closer to midnight it just gets more rediculous the behavior of these liberal nit-wits and that idiotic Doomsday Clock just as stupid as that dumb Death Clock Andrew McKelvey of Monster.Com installed on Times Square