Doomsday Clock Closer To Midnight
Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 05:10
in Earth & Climate
The Doomsday Clock, a symbolic representation of how close mankind finds itself to global catastrophe, has been set forward one minute, making it 5 minutes to midnight. This means that the clock now equals the time it showed in 2007. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, responsible for the clock’s setting, mentions three main reasons for this move. The slow progress of global nuclear disarmament. The safety of using nuclear energy (influenced by the Fukushima disaster). Climate change. read more