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Friday, January 23, 2015

Atomic Scientists Move Doomsday Clock 2 Minutes Closer To Midnight Citing Warming,Nukes


The U.S. 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 catastrophicmidnight, 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.

"The probability of global catastrophe is very high, and the actions needed to reduce the risks of disaster must be taken very soon," Benedict said.
But other scientists aren't quite so pessimistic.

Michael Oppenheimer, a professor of both geosciences and international affairs at Princeton University, said in an email: "I suspect that humans will 'muddle through' the climate situation much as we have muddled through the nuclear weapons situation — limiting the risk with co-operative international action and parallel domestic policies."The bulletin has included climate change in its doomsday clock since 2007.


"The fact that the Doomsday clock-setters changed their definition of 'doomsday' shows how profoundly the world has changed — they have to find a new source of doom because global thermonuclear war is now so unlikely," Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker wrote in an email. Pinker in his book "The Better Angels of our Nature" uses statistics to argue that the world has become less war-like, less violent and more tolerant in recent decades and centuries.


Richard Somerville, a member of the Bulletin's board who is a climate scientist at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, said the trend in heat-trapping emissions from the burning of fossil fuels will "lead to major climatic disruption globally. The urgency has nothing to do with politics or ideology. It arises from the laws of physics and biology and chemistry. These laws are non-negotiable."
But Somerville agreed that the threat from climate change isn't quite as all-or-nothing as it is with nuclear war.

Even with the end of the cold war, the lack of progress in the dismantling of nuclear weapons and countries like the United States and Russia spending hundreds of billions of dollars on modernizing nuclear weaponry makes an atomic bomb explosion — either accidental or on purpose — a continuing and more urgent threat, Benedict said.
But Benedict did acknowledge the group has been warning of imminent nuclear disaster with its clock since 1947 and it hasn't happened yet.culled





In other words,world go soon end right?








26 comments:

  1. Scientists will be predicting what we all know will eventually happen.

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  2. Coming back to read comments

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  3. Warning of an imminent disaster, which is inevitably triggered by the law of physics , biology and chemistry, well dear scientist , there is a higher law! That reigns in a kingdom above us!! And only his words shall suffice

    since 1947.......... And it has not happened,If God says the world should end, that's when it will. Finito

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  4. They are not God joor!
    Lmaoooooooooo that reminds me of one time it was announced that the world will come to an end. 1993 or 1994, I was in Jss class then. When the day came, all of us in my Dorm gathered together, we didn't even know whether to pray or sing. One by one we dosed off only to wake up when the mass bell rang (it was a catholic boarding school) and alas we weren't raptured. Lol

    My mum told me that she blamed herself for not going to pick me up from school on that day so that she can have all her kids under the same roof. Lol

    Its only God that knows when the world will end. Not even the angels know.

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  5. Hmmmm...God abeg..oh i never achieve anything.

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  6. One way or the other,this world wil end

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  7. Them don start! I go with the bible anytime anyday.

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  8. Hahahahahahaha Stella abeg help me ask them ooh. All these scientists and their scare tactics . Always spreading panic waves with their pessimistic procrastinations.

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  9. The world will end next week,Lmaoooo

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  10. Any which way, if world end, e end b dat. Sekina!

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  11. World will soon end..... Na
    Anyway lemme gbensh well before the end o...cos no gbenshing in heaven or he'll...when no be yoruba movie
    Truth is that 3mins may be 3 seconds,minutes hours, days,weeks,months,years,even centuries....
    Na only God.
    So my Bros and sis do that which you do now well be it good or bad don't stand on the fence, there is no void between heaven and hell for fence occupiers to fill.
    As for me I'm on a gbenshing spree

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  12. Cheeeei.


    I want the world not to end now o
    I want to grow old with my guy

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  13. Story! If you die, your own world don end. So live right peeps

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  14. Recent alarming events are enough to tell one the end is near...Spiritual alertness should be everyone's priority!

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  15. Whatever they mean by this we will get to see but I don't believe in their doomsday.

    http://naijasportscrib.com/

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  16. Pls let it end today self so one can rest, this suffering is too much abeg!

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  17. a.k.a EDWIN CHINEDU AZUBUKO said...
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    My God go punish this people.... See as they wan carry fear pieces me here abeg...
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    ***CURRENTLY IN JUPITER***

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  18. Are they the creator of universe? Do they know how and when the world was founded? Story for the gods!But that does not mean that you should continue in sin ohhhhhh!

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  19. There is an element of truth in what they are saying o, the bible says it all in Matthew 24, and its all coming to pass cos the kinds of things we hear, read and experience are not normal. we are at the end of age people. Pls repent of ur sins and embrace God

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  20. It should end make we all start over!!

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