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Apocalypse is 30 seconds closer, say Doomsday Clock scientists
BBC News ^ | 26th January 2017 | BBC News

Posted on 01/26/2017 2:33:47 PM PST by Ennis85

Scientists say the world has edged closer to apocalypse in the past year amid a darkening security landscape and comments by Donald Trump. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BPA) moved the minute hand of the symbolic Doomsday Clock from three minutes to two-and-a-half minutes to midnight. It is the second closest it has been. BPA chief Rachel Bronson urged world leaders to "calm rather than stoke tensions that could lead to war". In a report, the BPA said President Trump's statements on climate change, expanding the US nuclear arsenal and the questioning of intelligence agencies had contributed to the heightened global risk. It is the closest the clock has come to midnight since 1953, when the minute hand was moved to two minutes away following hydrogen bomb tests by the US and Russia.

What is the Doomsday Clock? The minute hand on the Doomsday Clock is a metaphor for how vulnerable to catastrophe the world is deemed to be.

The symbolic device was created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947. The BPA was founded at the University of Chicago in 1945 by a group of scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons. Today, the group includes physicists and environmental scientists from around the world, who decide whether to adjust the clock in consultation with the group's Board of Sponsors - which includes 15 Nobel laureates. Why has it moved half a minute closer to midnight? For the last two years, the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock has stayed set at three minutes before the hour. But the BPA says the danger of global disaster is even greater in 2017, and so has moved the hand forward 30 seconds.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; Government; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: agitprop; clock; doomsday; doomsdayclock; fakenews; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; junkscience; pseudoscience; scientists; stevenpinker; trump
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To: Ennis85

Well, Heck yeah.

It’s been 31 seconds since they posted that.


21 posted on 01/26/2017 2:56:28 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Love Conquers All)
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To: Ennis85

Women and minorities hardest hit.


22 posted on 01/26/2017 2:57:44 PM PST by aomagrat (Gun owners who vote for democrats are too stupid to own guns.)
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To: Ennis85

These “atomic scientists” are out of their element. They are political hacks. This statement leaves no doubt.

“The Trump administration needs to state clearly, unequivocally it accepts climate change caused by human activity…There are no alternative facts here.”

https://www.google.com/amp/amp.usatoday.com/story/97077736/?client=ms-android-verizon


23 posted on 01/26/2017 2:58:57 PM PST by map
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To: Da Coyote

or after the oceans flood us or we boil to death?
= = =

Looking at the ‘News’ and weather, you should include ‘Freeze to death’


24 posted on 01/26/2017 2:59:02 PM PST by Scrambler Bob (Love Conquers All)
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To: a fool in paradise

The $150B brought us closer to peace, of course.


25 posted on 01/26/2017 2:59:57 PM PST by alstewartfan (Old admirals who feel the wind Are never put to sea. Al Stewart from Past Present & Future)
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To: Ennis85

Hmmmm, did it budge when North Korea started setting off nuclear bombs?

Did it twitch when obama green-lighted Iran’s nuclear ambitions?

Did it have conniptions when Russia invaded the Crimea?


26 posted on 01/26/2017 3:01:22 PM PST by null and void (Roses are red, soylent is green. Get to the shelter, it's 2017)
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To: map

They Science.

#todaysfakenews


27 posted on 01/26/2017 3:04:11 PM PST by a fool in paradise (The COM-Left is saddened by the death of the Communist dictator Fidel Castro. No surprise there.)
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To: Ennis85

liberal Apocalypse


28 posted on 01/26/2017 3:06:04 PM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Make America Great Again !)
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To: Ennis85

Wonder what the correlation between the clock and who is elected President?


29 posted on 01/26/2017 3:06:45 PM PST by bray (Pray for President Trump)
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To: 353FMG

[I highly doubt that the unemployed are really worried. They feel that apocalyptic times have already arrived.]

There is definitely some truth in the latter part of that statement, especially.


30 posted on 01/26/2017 3:06:51 PM PST by SaveFerris (Hebrews 13:2 Do not forget to entertain strangers, for ... some have unwittingly entertained angels)
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To: Steely Tom

Andropov was the scariest guy to lead the Soviet Union. Fortunately for all of us, he wasn’t in power long enough to do lasting damage.

Hillary! was the warmonger in the recent campaign. She and Obama were determined to initiate and sustain foolish and unnecessary confrontations with the Russians, with whom we have many mutual interests.


31 posted on 01/26/2017 3:07:39 PM PST by riverdawg
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To: stayathomemom

At what point can we label the “Doomsday Clock” “Fake News”?
************

They list “Fake News” as one of the reasons they used to justify moving the hands closer to midnight. I kid you not.

Looking at their historic time adjustments, they have 1960 at 7 minutes, but the next adjustment I see, for 1963, is out to 12 minutes. It seems that the closest we came to thermonuclear war was during the Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962. I guess these guys musta missed that one.

Oh wait, a Dem was in the White House then.

NEVERMIND....


32 posted on 01/26/2017 3:09:36 PM PST by leftcoaster
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To: Ennis85
Ten bucks says that within a year they'll announce that it's at 2 milliseconds before midnight.
33 posted on 01/26/2017 3:09:55 PM PST by Gay State Conservative (Deplorables' Lives Matter)
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To: Ennis85

Trumps fault!


34 posted on 01/26/2017 3:11:41 PM PST by TomServo
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To: null and void
Hmmmm, did it budge when North Korea started setting off nuclear bombs?

Apparently not. In 2015, they moved the clock two minutes ahead because of "unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernizations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals."

They're saying we're closer to "doomsday" now than we were in the 80s or the 60s, closer than at any time since Stalin was alive.

I call BS on this.

35 posted on 01/26/2017 3:14:10 PM PST by x
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To: Ennis85
In a report, the BPA said President Trump's statements on climate change, expanding the US nuclear arsenal and the questioning of intelligence agencies had contributed to the heightened global risk. It is the closest the clock has come to midnight since 1953, when the minute hand was moved to two minutes away following hydrogen bomb tests by the US and Russia.

At one time I had a tiny bit of respect for this publication.

Btu Wow, they think the world is going to go to war over Climate Change?!!

And there was a time when they really had a problem with the US’s intelligence agencies.

I guess it is time to start talking Trump Derangement Syndrome.

36 posted on 01/26/2017 3:14:23 PM PST by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit.)
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To: Ennis85

Idiocy!

Hillary Clinton was wanting a hot war with Russia after the Dem Convention. If she had won in November, likely WE would be in that hot war even before she took office.

That is a Doomsday Scenario!

And we dodged that bullet — or nuke(s).


37 posted on 01/26/2017 3:17:23 PM PST by TomGuy
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To: Ennis85
My hemorrhoids are flaring up today.

Well its probably more accurate than this stupid clock. It's means were all gonna die.

38 posted on 01/26/2017 3:17:45 PM PST by right way right (May we remain sober over mere men, for God really is our one and only true hope.)
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To: Ennis85

“..........1945 by a group of scientists who helped develop the first atomic weapons.”

Real scientists existed back in those days, unlike in todays nut filled world.


39 posted on 01/26/2017 3:18:02 PM PST by Gator113 (I use liberal tears in my milkshake ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~ ~ LOCK HER UP ~ ~DRAIN THE SWAMP~)
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To: Ennis85

             

40 posted on 01/26/2017 3:20:13 PM PST by tomkat
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