Posted by Beth Owens on Jan 17th, 2013 // No Comment
Doomsday Clock stays at Five Minutes to Midnight
For the year 2013 the Doomsday Clock will keep its time at five minutes to midnight refelcting the threat to the world as we know it of nuclear terrorism and global warming.
The clock, created and calculated by members of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is a symbolic warning of how close to destruction the human race has moved.
In an accompanying letter to U.S. President Barrack Obama the scientists who calculated the time of the Doomsday Clock called for the global issue of climate change to be addressed through partnership with countries around the world; the group claimed their calculations had included the advances made by the U.S. in switching energy production to renewable anergy sources.
“The politics of economic recovery have distracted world leaders from the long-term threats that face humanity, specifically the dangers presented by climate change and nuclear weapons,” said the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, who control the clock.
“2012 was a year in which global problems pressed forward, but too many of its citizens stood back.”
They acknowledge the steps the U.S. president took to “nudge the country along a more rational energy path,”- but also warm of global warming’s effect on the US.
“2012 was the hottest year on record in the contiguous United States, marked by devastating drought and brutal storms,’ the letter says.
“These extreme events are exactly what climate models predict for an atmosphere laden with greenhouse gases. 2012 was a year of unrealized opportunity to reduce nuclear stockpiles, to lower the immediacy of destruction from weapons on alert, and to control the spread of fissile materials and keep nuclear terrorism at bay.
“2012 was a year in which — one year after the partial meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station — the Japanese nation continued to be at the earliest stages of what will be a costly and long recovery.”
Since its creation in 1947 the Doomsday Clock has given grave predictions of how close to destruction the human race has come.
The closest to destruction the human race has become was 1953 during the Cold War when the clock was positioned at two minutes to midnight; in 1991 as the Cold War ended and both the U.S. and Russia began reducing their nuclear arsenal’s the clock was moved back to seventeen minutes to midnight.
On The Web:
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/01/15/end-near-doomsday-clock-holds-at-5-til-midnight/
Doomsday Clock stays at Five Minutes to Midnight
For the year 2013 the Doomsday Clock will keep its time at five minutes to midnight refelcting the threat to the world as we know it of nuclear terrorism and global warming.
The clock, created and calculated by members of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is a symbolic warning of how close to destruction the human race has moved.
In an accompanying letter to U.S. President Barrack Obama the scientists who calculated the time of the Doomsday Clock called for the global issue of climate change to be addressed through partnership with countries around the world; the group claimed their calculations had included the advances made by the U.S. in switching energy production to renewable anergy sources.
“The politics of economic recovery have distracted world leaders from the long-term threats that face humanity, specifically the dangers presented by climate change and nuclear weapons,” said the Science and Security Board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, who control the clock.
“2012 was a year in which global problems pressed forward, but too many of its citizens stood back.”
They acknowledge the steps the U.S. president took to “nudge the country along a more rational energy path,”- but also warm of global warming’s effect on the US.
“2012 was the hottest year on record in the contiguous United States, marked by devastating drought and brutal storms,’ the letter says.
“These extreme events are exactly what climate models predict for an atmosphere laden with greenhouse gases. 2012 was a year of unrealized opportunity to reduce nuclear stockpiles, to lower the immediacy of destruction from weapons on alert, and to control the spread of fissile materials and keep nuclear terrorism at bay.
“2012 was a year in which — one year after the partial meltdown at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Station — the Japanese nation continued to be at the earliest stages of what will be a costly and long recovery.”
Since its creation in 1947 the Doomsday Clock has given grave predictions of how close to destruction the human race has come.
The closest to destruction the human race has become was 1953 during the Cold War when the clock was positioned at two minutes to midnight; in 1991 as the Cold War ended and both the U.S. and Russia began reducing their nuclear arsenal’s the clock was moved back to seventeen minutes to midnight.
On The Web:
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/01/15/end-near-doomsday-clock-holds-at-5-til-midnight/