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Doomsday Clock moves ahead to 100 seconds to midnight
« on: January 23, 2020, 06:11:01 pm »
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/doomsday-clock-2020-1.5435940

In its annual announcement, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved the Doomsday Clock ahead to 100 seconds to midnight.

The clock was introduced in 1947 and is a symbolic representation of how close humanity is to destroying civilization. Typically, the hands are moved forward or back depending on how vulnerable the world is. Midnight represents a catastrophe.

While the hands of the clock typically move a minute at a time, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists moved it forward by 30 seconds in 2017 and 2018, stopping at two minutes to midnight. It remained unchanged in 2019.

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"If the Earth warms by what we tend to think of just a few degrees … we have no reason to be confident that such a world will remain hospitable to human civilization," said Kartha, who was also the author of the fifth and sixth assessment reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

Former California governor Jerry Brown, who is the bulletin's executive chair, gave a fiery speech. He said while he's not a scientist, he recognizes the importance of the symbolic clock and that it's the only way to let the world know the threats to civilization.
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Re: Doomsday Clock moves ahead to 100 seconds to midnight
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2020, 06:12:14 pm »
But please, Greta, tell us how the IPCC report, written by a key member of a supposedly scientific organization that counts politician Jerry Brown as its chairman, is settled science.
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Re: Doomsday Clock moves ahead to 100 seconds to midnight
« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2020, 06:17:43 pm »
The Faux-Peaceniks are now Watermelonian Faux-Enviros?
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Re: Doomsday Clock moves ahead to 100 seconds to midnight
« Reply #3 on: January 24, 2020, 02:04:00 pm »
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Re: Doomsday Clock moves ahead to 100 seconds to midnight
« Reply #4 on: January 24, 2020, 02:27:14 pm »
The primary threat to civilization is them.
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Re: Doomsday Clock moves ahead to 100 seconds to midnight
« Reply #5 on: January 24, 2020, 02:28:47 pm »
"Everyone go home and put a brick in your toilet tank"
-Jerry Brown
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Re: Doomsday Clock moves ahead to 100 seconds to midnight
« Reply #6 on: January 24, 2020, 02:37:25 pm »
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Re: Doomsday Clock moves ahead to 100 seconds to midnight
« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2020, 05:22:22 pm »
When did this "clock" go from warning about a nuclear holocaust by Atomic Scientists become a warning about Climate Change by Atomic Scientists?  Would it not carry a little bit more gravitas if it came from Climate Scientists?  Why not the Nutritionists Guild?

Find that moment, and you will have discovered exactly when this index was set off the rails.
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Re: Doomsday Clock moves ahead to 100 seconds to midnight
« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2020, 07:34:53 pm »
Jerry Brown gave a fiery speech? Moonbeam is incapable of fiery, how do you maintain a fire with long pauses of um, ah, er, and staring off into space? Brown is what Biden would be if Biden had been smoking wed non stop for fifty years...................actually there really isn't much difference between the two when you think about it.
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Re: Doomsday Clock moves ahead to 100 seconds to midnight
« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2020, 07:38:25 pm »
Quote from: Wingnut on January 24, 2020, 02:28:47 pm
"Everyone go home and put a brick in your toilet tank"
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If only California had followed "If it's yellow let it mellow, if it's Brown flush it down" we wouldn't have had Moonbeam redux and gruesome Newsom.
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Re: Doomsday Clock moves ahead to 100 seconds to midnight
« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2020, 07:52:24 pm »
End of the World Parody


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Re: Doomsday Clock moves ahead to 100 seconds to midnight
« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2020, 07:54:28 pm »
Quote from: GtHawk on January 24, 2020, 07:38:25 pm
If only California had followed "If it's yellow let it mellow, if it's Brown flush it down" we wouldn't have had Moonbeam redux and gruesome Newsom.

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