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Doomsday Clock stuck near midnight due to climate change and nuclear war
2016-01-26 21:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: The Doomsday Clock, the symbolic countdown to humanitys end, remained stuck on the brink of the apocalypse for a second year on Tuesday, because of the continued existential threats posed by nuclear war and climate change. The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the group which created the clock in 1947, said it was keeping the clock hands set at three minutes to midnight the closest the clock has come to destruction since the throes of the cold war in 1984. The clock ticks now at just three...
Doomsday Clock stays unchanged at three minutes to midnight
2016-01-26 21:21:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: The Iran nuclear deal and movement on climate change prompted the scientists who maintain the Doomsday Clock, a symbolic countdown to global catastrophe, to keep it unchanged on Tuesday at three minutes to midnight. The Doomsday Clock, devised by the Chicago-based Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, is widely recognized as an indicator of the world's vulnerability to catastrophe. Positive developments in 2015 center on the international accord that limited Iran's nuclear program, and the agreement...
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Awesome tech you can't buy yet: BlipCast headphones, an alarm clock rug, and more
2016-01-17 15:21:58| Wireless - Topix.net
At any given moment there are approximately a zillion different crowdfunding campaigns happening on the Web. Take a stroll through Kickstarter or Indiegogo and you'll find no shortage of weird, useless, and downright stupid projects out there - alongside some real gems.
Ramanathan Takes The BBVA Foundation Award For Demonstrating The Global Warming Impact Of Other Gases And Particles And Showing That Means Are Available Besides Limiting CO2 To Achieve Short-Term Progress Against The Clock
2016-01-11 02:09:55| pollutiononline Home Page
The BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in the Climate Change category goes in this eighth edition to Indian climatologist Veerabhadran Ramanathan for discovering that human-produced gases and pollutants other than CO2have a huge power to alter the Earth's climate, and that by acting on them it is possible to make a short-term dent on the rate of global warming
Every home ought to have an old ticking clock
2015-12-29 10:12:04| Beverages - Topix.net
Some say a ticking clock is the heart of the home. Since modern digital clocks don't click, every home should have an old clock.
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