Posted on 01/26/2016 9:55:44 PM PST by Citizen Zed
PALO ALTO, Calif. -- Rising tension between Russia and the U.S., North Korea's recent nuclear test and a lack of aggressive steps to address climate change are putting the world under grave threat, scientists behind a "Doomsday Clock" that measures the likelihood of a global cataclysm said Tuesday.
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists announced that the minute hand on the metaphorical clock remained at three minutes-to-midnight. The clock reflects how vulnerable the world is to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change and new technologies, with midnight symbolizing apocalypse.
"Unless we change the way we think, humanity remains in serious danger," said Lawrence Krauss, chair of the bulletin's Board of Sponsors.
Krauss said the Iran nuclear agreement and Paris climate accord were good news. But the good news was offset by nuclear threats, including tension between nuclear-armed states India and Pakistan, and uncertainty that the Paris accord will lead to concrete action to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
The scientists behind the bulletin adjusted the clock from five minutes-to-midnight to three minutes-to-midnight last year, the closest to midnight it has been since 1983. They cited climate change, modernization of nuclear weapons and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals as "extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity."
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Is that on God time, or moron time?
The morons at The Bulletin of [Leftwing] Atomic Scientists have had a clock that's told the wrong time for almost seventy years.
That's Zarguna Standard Time.
Look at India/Pakistan. They both have nukes, and as much as they hate each other, and as often as they have sniped at each other, neither has felt confident enough to go full house nuclear exchange.
Ten years ago yesterday, time ran out on Algore’s dire prediction.
Yes, they predict nuclear disaster just about as well as they “predict” the weath.. er, Global Warm...er, Climate Change. yeah, that’s it.
That’s just how they roll. They’ll use any bugaboo to get their way (more funding). The fact that Hollywood’s Zombies are really Muslims is lost on them. It’s like none of them ever saw “Firefly” where the Reavers are really just Muslims.
Not this again. There’s never been anything scientific about the “ Doomsday Clock” - just agitprop from a batch of degreed lefties.
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