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Atomic Scientists: We’re getting even closer to doomsday
Associated Press ^ | Jan 22, 2015 1:28 PM EST | Seth Borenstein

Posted on 01/22/2015 11:05:49 AM PST by Olog-hai

The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says Earth is now closer to human-caused doomsday than it has been in more than 30 years because of global warming and nuclear weaponry. But other experts say that’s way too gloomy.

The advocacy group founded by the creators of the atomic bomb moved their famed “Doomsday Clock” ahead two minutes on Thursday. It said the world is now three minutes from a catastrophic midnight, instead of five minutes.

“This is about doomsday; this is about the end of civilization as we know it,” bulletin executive director Kennette Benedict said at a news conference in Washington.

She called both climate change and modernization of nuclear weaponry equal but undeniable threats to humanity’s continued existence that triggered the 20 scientists on the board to decide to move the clock closer to midnight. …

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: bas; climatechangehoax; doomsdayclock; globalwarminghoax; kennettebenedict; nukes; rop; worldwar3
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1 posted on 01/22/2015 11:05:49 AM PST by Olog-hai
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To: Olog-hai

A political organization — nothing do with science.


2 posted on 01/22/2015 11:08:25 AM PST by Cincinatus (Omnia relinquit servare Rempublicam)
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To: Olog-hai
we have NOTHING to worry about.....

Revrunt sharpton has PROMISED to Miraculously set back the clock...much






3 posted on 01/22/2015 11:10:14 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: Olog-hai

We are all going to die! In less than 125 years every man, woman and child on Earth will be dead!!!

We will be replaced by billions of people who have not even been born yet.

It is all Bush’s fault.


4 posted on 01/22/2015 11:10:21 AM PST by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Olog-hai
Janet Black: Doctor Manhattan as you know the Doomsday Clock is a symbolic clock face analogizing humankind's proximity to extinction, midnight representing the threat of nuclear war. As of now it stands at four minutes to midnight. Would you agree that we are that close to annihilation?

Jon Osterman: My father was a watch maker. He abandoned it when Einstein discovered time is relative. I would only agree that a symbolic clock is as nourishing to the intellect as photograph of oxygen to a drowning man.

5 posted on 01/22/2015 11:10:41 AM PST by kosciusko51 (Enough of "Who is John Galt?" Who is Patrick Henry?)
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To: Olog-hai

climate change and modernization of nuclear weaponry equal??

Nuclear bombs goes kaboom! while global warming is nice if you live in Canada.


6 posted on 01/22/2015 11:11:31 AM PST by minnesota_bound
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To: Olog-hai

In Iranian Nuclear Savings time the clock is set at
30 seconds to midnight and Obama keeps saying,
“Heck, let’s give them another minute...”


7 posted on 01/22/2015 11:15:22 AM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Olog-hai

Best news ever! We may die in a puff of smoke, but so will our enemies! Run that truck in the driveway an extra 30 minutes today and everyday.


8 posted on 01/22/2015 11:17:48 AM PST by Rich21IE
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To: Olog-hai

The end of civilization as we know it... One man’s doomsday is another man’s utopia.


9 posted on 01/22/2015 11:19:18 AM PST by DeakonSmith
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To: Olog-hai
nuclear war photo: Nuclear store Nuclearstore.jpg
10 posted on 01/22/2015 11:21:34 AM PST by Snickering Hound
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To: Cincinatus

This bunch has always gotten more attention than it deserved. Their goal from jump street was to acare Americans into supporting disarmament, unilateral if necessary.


11 posted on 01/22/2015 11:23:07 AM PST by Barkeep99
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To: Olog-hai
What a bunch of attention grabbers.

Doomsday would be a full nuclear exchange, and even then, it would not be the end of the world.

They were always a bunch of Chicken Littles, but at least during the Cold War there was something to base it on.

But now? They are just moving it up because they haven't been in the news for years and their dues paying members are all dying off. They need a new batch of bat crap crazy lefties to fill the empty chairs.

12 posted on 01/22/2015 11:25:07 AM PST by SampleMan (Feral Humans are the refuse of socialism.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...

Thanks Olog-hai.
...because of global warming and nuclear weaponry.
Fake scientists, fake science, fake warming.
13 posted on 01/22/2015 11:27:27 AM PST by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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To: Olog-hai

IMHO, Seth Borenstein is a communist. Even much of the left snickers at his GW postings : )


14 posted on 01/22/2015 11:32:38 AM PST by stephenjohnbanker (My Batting Average( 1,000) (GOPe is that easy to read))
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To: Olog-hai

So not they add global warming to their mix while they exclude nuclear power plants.

This group now has zero credibility. They are tool for the political elite.


15 posted on 01/22/2015 11:37:33 AM PST by Revel
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To: Olog-hai
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists says Earth is now closer to human-caused doomsday than it has been in more than 30 years because of global warming

I sense a little bit of mission creep, or envy that global warmers took their scam and are doing better then they are.

16 posted on 01/22/2015 11:38:35 AM PST by Vince Ferrer
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To: Olog-hai

They lost me at “global warming”.


17 posted on 01/22/2015 11:41:11 AM PST by airborne (My heroes don't wear capes - My heroes wear dog tags!)
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To: kosciusko51

I had that exact scene in my head when I read the title


18 posted on 01/22/2015 11:48:32 AM PST by NativeSon ( Grease the floor with Crisco when I dance the Disco)
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To: Revel

Disingenuous. That is what they are. Ignore three melted reactors that continue to pour deadly nuclear radioactive elements into the Pacific Ocean every day. Ignore that real threat and worry about a non-threat, global warming which has stopped. And a potential threat that only governments hold over our heads, nuclear annihilation. Governments could remove the threat of nuclear annihilation tomorrow. But they won’t. It gives them power and that is what they desire most.


19 posted on 01/22/2015 11:52:18 AM PST by justa-hairyape (The user name is sarcastic. Although at times it may not appear that way.)
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To: Olog-hai

Oops we misread the clock. That should be 3 minutes to noon instead of midnight.


20 posted on 01/22/2015 11:55:41 AM PST by Starstruck (If my reply offends, you probably don't understand sarcasm or criticism...or do.)
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