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Doomsday Clock now reads three minutes to 'midnight'
2015-01-25 19:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Christian Today: According to a group of experts that monitor threats to humanity, the world is now closer to armageddon than ever. The scientists behind the Doomsday Clock, which aims to reflect how close the world is to man-made destruction, have moved the symbolic clock's minute hand two minutes forward, thereby setting the time to three minutes to midnight. "Unchecked climate change, global nuclear weapons modernisations, and outsized nuclear weapons arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to...
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Climate change pushes doomsday clock closer to midnight
2015-01-23 12:13:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Blue and Green: Climate change and nuclear proliferation have led to scientist deciding to move the symbolic doomsday clock closer to midnight signalling growing threats to humanity and the earth. The clock now reads three minutes to midnight. The doomsday clock was created in 1947 by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists to use imagery to convey threats to humanity and the planet. The decision to move the minute hand, or leave it where it is, is made every year. The last move in 2012, when the hand was moved...
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Three Minutes Away from Doomsday
2015-01-23 01:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Inter Press Service: Unchecked climate change and the nuclear arms race have propelled the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock forward two minutes closer to midnight, from its 2012 placement of five minutes to midnight. The decision was announced in Washington DC by members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (BAS), the body behind the calculations and creation of the 1947 Clock of Doom."The simple truth on nuclear weapons is that they are inconsistent with civilisation." -- Alyn Ware The last time the clock...
Doomsday Clock Set at 3 Minutes to Midnight
2015-01-22 20:09:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
LiveScience: The world is "3 minutes" from doomsday. That's the grim outlook from board members of The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Frustrated with a lack of international action to address climate change and shrink nuclear arsenals, they decided today (Jan. 22) to push the minute hand of their iconic "Doomsday Clock" to 11:57 p.m. It's the first time the clock hands have moved in three years; since 2012, the clock had been fixed at 5 minutes to symbolic doom, midnight. The Bulletin of the Atomic...
EPA head Gina McCarthy defends strategy, denies Republican 'doomsday scenarios'
2014-12-12 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
CBS: Facing significant budget cuts and an incoming Republican Congress determined to limit her authority, Environmental Protection Agency head Gina McCarthy might be expected to sound a bit chastened. She doesn't. In an exclusive interview with CBS News, McCarthy, who became EPA administrator in 2013, defended her agency's plans to reduce carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants, strengthen ozone standards and regulate leaks of methane. "It's my job to explain to people why what we are...
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