In a series of statements alluding to President Donald Trump's fiery rhetoric, experts from the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists moved its Doomsday Clock forward to two-and-a-half minutes to midnight on Thursday.



"We chose the Doomsday Clock 70 years ago, because we feel it allows us a rare opportunity to reach the global public directly with an enduring icon and to raise the profile of urgent, global, existential threats that the public needs to be aware of to act responsibly," Krauss said. "The future of the clock, and our future, is in your hands."
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"The current political situation in the United States is of particular concern," said David Titley,

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"Climate change should not be a partisan, political issue—the well-established physics of the earth are neither liberal nor conservative in character," he said. "Alternative facts will not make the challenges of climate change magically go away."



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Rachel Bronson, executive director and publisher of the Bulletin, cited other concerns beyond the particular details of nuclear buildup and greenhouse gas emissions.

"The first has been the cavalier and reckless language used across the globe, especially in the United States, during the presidential election and after, around nuclear weapons and nuclear threats," she said. "The second has been a growing disregard of scientific expertise."



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"The Doomsday Clock is closer to midnight than it’s ever been in the lifetime of almost everyone in this room," said Lawrence Krauss, chair of the journal's board of sponsors and director of the Origins Project at Arizona State University.


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"Saber rattling and loose but dangerous rhetoric have become almost commonplace," said Rachel Bronson.




The clock, first created in 1947 to highlight the risks of the Cold War-era nuclear arms race, had previously been set to three minutes to midnight in 2015. Back in the 1950s, during a particularly tense moment in the Cold War, when the United States and Soviet Union both developed and tested the hydrogen bomb, the Bulletin set the clock to just two minutes from midnight. The clock was furthest from midnight, set to 17 minutes before the hour, in 1991, as Cold War tensions eased and the U.S. and Russia made progress on arms reduction.



read more at: https://www.fastcompany.com/3067406/why-scientists-just-reset-the-doomsday-clock-closer-to-midnight

means nothing... you do understand there is no real clock, right?

in as much as there is no 'real' credit rating

its a measurement created by a group of 'experts'

but its still interesting,,,

If Clinton had been elected they would have had to move the clock to 10 seconds till.

doubtful, they didnt have to in any of her other political positions,, including secretary of state,,,