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Doomsday Clock Set at 3 Minutes to Midnight
livescience.com ^ | January 22, 2015 | Megan Gannon

Posted on 01/22/2015 10:29:04 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper

The world is "3 minutes" from doomsday.

That's the grim outlook from board members of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Frustrated with a lack of international action to address climate change and shrink nuclear arsenals, they decided today (Jan. 22) to push the minute hand of their iconic "Doomsday Clock" to 11:57 p.m.

It's the first time the clock hands have moved in three years; since 2012, the clock had been fixed at 5 minutes to symbolic doom, midnight.

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KEYWORDS: doomsdayclock; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; stevenpinker
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“The Doomsday Clock” in particular and the “Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists” in general is pure marxist agit-prop.


21 posted on 01/22/2015 10:43:35 AM PST by NorthMountain (No longer TEA Party ... I'm the TAF Party)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

22 posted on 01/22/2015 10:44:41 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: Squantos

ROFLMAO. Well played my friend.


23 posted on 01/22/2015 10:45:23 AM PST by Lurker (Violence is rarely the answer. But when it is it is the only answer.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
It's the first time the clock hands have moved in three years; since 2012, the clock had been fixed at 5 minutes to symbolic doom, midnight.

So why should I worry about symbolic doom?

24 posted on 01/22/2015 10:45:29 AM PST by dartuser
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I actually went to the Bulletin office back in 1985 to see “The Clock”.

There is no “The CLock”, there were at that timehalf a dozen or so. They had no mechanism, working like a primary school “Judy Clock”.

What’s worse, is that only the hours 9 through 12 are shown on the clock. They have moved the hands forwards, backwards, by varying amounts.

In short, there is “no clock”, and what they call the clocks are not clocks at all.


25 posted on 01/22/2015 10:45:30 AM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
It's the first time the clock hands have moved in three years;

BULLSHIT!

This submoron writes as if "the hands" move of their own will, measuring our march to doom. That's nonsense. The leftist that scribble the BAS decide to "move" the "hands" whenever it suits their communist agenda. It's that simple, and that stupid.

26 posted on 01/22/2015 10:45:47 AM PST by NorthMountain (No longer TEA Party ... I'm the TAF Party)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Useful idiots


27 posted on 01/22/2015 10:46:26 AM PST by taxcontrol
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28 posted on 01/22/2015 10:47:37 AM PST by abb ("News reporting is too important to be left to the journalists." Walter Abbott (1950 -))
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Let's light this candle!
29 posted on 01/22/2015 10:47:47 AM PST by Obadiah (Wind turbines, aka: bird choppers, cause earthquakes due to their harmonic frequencies.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Scientists , LOL


30 posted on 01/22/2015 10:48:00 AM PST by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Darksheare

Not to mention Russia feeling its oats these days.


31 posted on 01/22/2015 10:48:48 AM PST by Twotone (Truth is hate to those who hate truth.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Experts on the board said they felt a sense of urgency this year because of the world's ongoing addiction to fossil fuels, procrastination with enacting laws to cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow efforts to get rid of nuclear weapons.

And here was I thinking it was because of Ukraine or ISIS or something.

32 posted on 01/22/2015 10:48:51 AM PST by McGruff (We have met the enemy and they are our own party.)
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To: Twotone

Yup.


33 posted on 01/22/2015 10:50:39 AM PST by Darksheare (Those who support liberal "Republicans" summarily support every action by same.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I think the real reason they moved it is because the Republicans won the Senate. It will go to a minute or less if the R’s win the White House in 2016


34 posted on 01/22/2015 10:51:39 AM PST by utford
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The Reverend Malthus was unavailable for comment.


35 posted on 01/22/2015 10:52:07 AM PST by Arm_Bears (Rope. Tree. Politician. Some assembly required.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper
Guess I'd better get to work on that home project I've been putting off.


36 posted on 01/22/2015 10:53:24 AM PST by McGruff (We have met the enemy and they are our own party.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

I strongly suggest that the next meeting of these scientists be held in Syria or even better, in the Gaza Strip. I’m sure that they’ll continue to worry about ‘(human caused) global climate change’ once the security is removed. And I betcha that their clock will advance to one minute to midnight - well, with what few members are left after Hamas or ISIS or Al Queda get done with them.


37 posted on 01/22/2015 10:54:27 AM PST by kingu (Everything starts with slashing the size and scope of the federal government.)
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To: Berlin_Freeper

The doomsday clock I’m worried about is the one ticking toward a tyranny - either Marxist or islamist.


38 posted on 01/22/2015 10:55:00 AM PST by aquila48
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To: WayneS

The last 2 minutes of a basketball are always the best... plenty of time!


39 posted on 01/22/2015 10:55:53 AM PST by BigIsleGal (Wake Me Up When the Illucid Wears Off)
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To: PGR88

+1....lol.


40 posted on 01/22/2015 10:56:41 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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