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Doomsday draws two minutes closer

Atomic scientists add climate change to the threats to humanity.

The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists has moved the hands of its Doomsday Clock to five minutes before midnight — the metaphorical marker of the end of humanity.

Read the story here.

Posted by Nicola Jones on January 17, 2007
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Posted by: Jerry Walker | January 17, 2007 09:31 PM

Maybe we should just stop worrying about what's going on out there and sort out what is going on right around us... quickly.

Posted by: electrobudha | January 18, 2007 09:50 PM

I welcome Mr. Brumfiel's article since it is one of the few public documents that reflect a direct concern from a scientifical community regarding environmental degradation produced by the war industry.

I have silently witnessed how passive and indiferent science men and women worldwide have been towards the many active conflicts around the world...

And I always wondered how is it possible that you people, that know the implications of such an irrational race towards producing weapons that destruct, choose to not comment, condemn or at least inform others about what you make of these conflicts.

I hope this symbolizes that the curtain with which economy has cover scientifical knowledge and truth has fallen finally.

Posted by: SmoothGirlieGirl | January 19, 2007 01:04 PM

scientists do comment on these issues (as this doomsday clock demonstrates) but what more do you expect them to do when the public at large choose to vote for war-mongers like bush and blair. this is all the more incredible when you consider both these idiots were re-elected in 2004 and 2005 respectively after the public had seen what a mess they had made of iraq

Posted by: marty k | January 26, 2007 06:05 PM

Two minutes forward, three decades back- the self appointed syndics of the Bulletin last attempted linking time and temperature in the depths of the Cold War, when "nuclear winter " was conjured out of thin ( one dimensional, in fact ) software to revivify the Freeze Movement.

Some of those directed studies were so self servingly political as to merit censurein Nature's pages ( -by Kerry Emanuel, no less ) as "notorious for their lack of scientific integrity."

Though the Cold War is over and "nuclear winter has literally melted down as climate models have grown in sophistication, it is nevertheless depressing to see the same old alliance of PR men and Peace Prize wannabe's flogging this year's new Model Apocalypse.

The whole dismal case history can be reviewed here:

Posted by: Russell Seitz | January 27, 2007 04:54 AM

here's the article specific link to the 'Nuclear Winter" review mentioned earlier- sorry the link did not go through on the first try :

http://adamant.typepad.com/seitz/2007/01/in_from_the_col.html

Posted by: Russell Seitz | January 29, 2007 09:33 PM

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