Doomsday Clock moves within two minutes
to midnight, closest since 1953
Washington Times,
by
Lauren Meier
Original Article
Posted By: Ribicon,
1/23/2020 1:10:38 PM
The Doomsday Clock has moved 20 seconds closer to midnight, meaning the world is just 100 seconds away from complete destruction. In a live announcement Thursday morning, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists made the striking announcement that the world is symbolically within two minutes to the end of the world. The 2020 time is the closest the Clock has been to midnight since 1953, when both the U.S. and the Soviet Union were testing hydrogen bombs. Rachel Bronson, president and CEO of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, cited worsening nuclear and climate crises as the causes to inch the time forward.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
Northcross 1/23/2020 1:16:59 PM (No. 296194)
Ah, yes, the Doomsday Clock... spectacularly wrong since 1947.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Venturer 1/23/2020 1:18:56 PM (No. 296196)
Who is it that keeps moving the hands forward in this fantasy clock?
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
chance_232 1/23/2020 1:19:04 PM (No. 296197)
Im surprised that moving the clock wasnt directly attributed to Trump.
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Have any of the "Atomic Scientists" over the last 70 years they've been flogging their Doomsday Clock ever voted for a conservative? Does anyone really believe the folks running this freakshow are atomic physicists? What do they know about geo-politics and global climate processes?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Jethro bo 1/23/2020 1:21:20 PM (No. 296203)
Glad they let us know. Let's party like its 1999! Honestly, most us us have survived the time the doomsday clock for overpopulation hit in the 60s. Countless midnights for famine. We have survived global cooling and warming, acid rain, draughts, floods, plagues (remember the millions wiped out by swine flu?) and countless other disaters of biblical proportions. I'm so numb to all the disaster I just want to party like crazy now. I'm gonna burn up as much fossil fuel as I can driving around with my pals partying and eat meat so more cows will be needed.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
BarryNo 1/23/2020 1:27:22 PM (No. 296218)
What B.S. when I was a kid, this may have had some legitimacy. But if they're basing this off the scold- I mean sermons of the 'enlightened' Greta, it a joke.
Should have been posted in the Onion, or the Sacramento Bee.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
droopydog 1/23/2020 1:28:29 PM (No. 296219)
With Bernie surging in the polls, it's no wonder.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Illinois Mom 1/23/2020 1:30:41 PM (No. 296222)
No closer since 1953? What was it in 1962 during The Cuban Missile Crisis?
I spent most of my childhood in fear of a nuclear attack from Russia. It was constant. News stories featuring Khrushchev, bomb shelter pamphlets in the mail did to me what "climate change" hysteria is probably doing to the kids of today.
Thanks to Clinton and his tech exchange with N Korea and Obama gifting Iran with billions I can see that the threat is probably real but it's hard to imagine how they would expect to "win" if ant weapons were used on us or any our allies. Then again their leaders are insane.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 1/23/2020 1:42:21 PM (No. 296234)
This has been a ridiculous thing since I was a kid.
Not worth paying the slightest attention to these nutballs, always wrong but never afraid to boldly predict.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
MeiDei 1/23/2020 1:42:35 PM (No. 296235)
True to form, the first 3 comments after make more sense than the article.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
WhamDBambam 1/23/2020 1:42:49 PM (No. 296236)
Yay! Yay!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Bazi 1/23/2020 1:47:15 PM (No. 296241)
Are they trying to push AOC and Saint Greta over the edge? They thought we still had 12 years to go. Not 100 seconds.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Highlander 1/23/2020 2:03:18 PM (No. 296251)
De nada. Take care of just feeding yourself. I’ll be fine. Love you
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
john56 1/23/2020 2:03:33 PM (No. 296252)
It's like the folks who always predict the end of the world and the second coming of Christ. Someday, they'll be right, but it probably isn't going to be any day they predict. Or as they say about economists-- they have successfully predicted eight of the last three recessions.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
Highlander 1/23/2020 2:04:34 PM (No. 296253)
Liberals are such alarmists and pessimists.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
couchguy 1/23/2020 2:06:22 PM (No. 296255)
I don't know how, but you can bet tax payers dollars are involved with this scam.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 1/23/2020 2:18:15 PM (No. 296264)
Their rationale is increasing nuclear and climate crisis. Not buying it. To me, this is all politics. Its an election year, and Trump's a warmonger don'tcha know. I don't need some atomic scientists to tell me the state of the world. These guys have jumped on the climate change bandwagon. Did Mini-Mike buy them off?
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
Dodge Boy 1/23/2020 2:27:53 PM (No. 296279)
Rachel, try a couple shots of a fine Scotch Whiskey. See if this helps.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/23/2020 2:36:06 PM (No. 296292)
So the "atomic" scientists sold off the franchise to the "climate" scientists ? Probably worth the fee. It includes a 3 year subscription to National Geographic.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Ida Lou Pino 1/23/2020 2:47:05 PM (No. 296305)
Be careful, women and minorities.
When the world ends - - you'll be the hardest hit.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
TLCary 1/23/2020 2:52:16 PM (No. 296315)
No change in the polls? Next time we set it to one second before midnight while jumping a shark tank on a motorcycle. That will do it!
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Heil Liberals 1/23/2020 3:05:17 PM (No. 296327)
The Doomsday clock is staffed with the same type of genius that is running the Schiff Show in the Senate.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Bur Oak 1/23/2020 3:26:36 PM (No. 296350)
That clock hand won't move away from midnight until another Democrat is president.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
ohioTom 1/23/2020 4:13:44 PM (No. 296418)
Isn't that cute? Little scientists know the future.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Right Time 1/23/2020 4:21:33 PM (No. 296426)
Doomsday Clock?
I thought that stopped, never to run again, with Y2K.
But then we've had so many worldwide catastrophes, plagues and disasters, I can't keep up with them.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
Right Time 1/23/2020 4:25:50 PM (No. 296428)
That must be it!! The clock stopped 100 seconds from MIDNIGHT!
It must be a Solar-Powered Clock, and of course there is no solar energy as you approach the dark of night at midnight.
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
kono 1/23/2020 5:03:25 PM (No. 296481)
According to their Wiki entry:
The Bulletin's Clock is not a gauge to register the ups and downs of the international power struggle; it is intended to reflect basic changes in the level of continuous danger in which mankind lives in the nuclear age...
Nice effort to re-spin... It was meant to represent how close we were to world destruction due to nuclear weapons.
Now it just happens to have a more generalized meaning, designed to incorporate "climate change". Why don't they just rename it the Greta Gauge?
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
NYbob 1/23/2020 5:28:26 PM (No. 296502)
Punxsutawney Phil, the crazed groundhog, knows more about 'climate change' than this whole crew. At least the equal on nuclear issues to Rachel Bronson.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
chumley 1/23/2020 5:39:13 PM (No. 296517)
That clock scared the bejeezus out of me the first time I heard about it...in 7th grade. Then I realized it was just based on the opinions of a bunch of academics. It was no more valid than any other opinion.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
grampus 1/23/2020 5:44:47 PM (No. 296523)
Hmmmmm...."Ice is nice
and would suffice."
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
VirtuDawg 1/24/2020 12:17:34 AM (No. 296767)
Oops, they forgot to set it back an hour to standard time last fall . . .
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Reply 32 - Posted by:
JimBob 1/24/2020 12:38:01 AM (No. 296777)
It's WAAAAY past the time to retire this Chicken Little publicity stunt.
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Reply 33 - Posted by:
GardenGal 1/24/2020 3:30:38 AM (No. 296826)
It is idiotic. My husband is a physicist, not an atomic physicist. But the regular physicist magazine also has delved into the climate lunacy. But i do not even know why they think nuclear war is so much more likely today. It is all nonsense.
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