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The Doomsday Clock Is Reset: Closest To Midnight Since The 1950s (npr.org)
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has taken the unprecedented step of moving the Doomsday Clock ahead 30 seconds, taking the world to two-and-a-half-minute to midnight. The scientists said Thursday that several factors weighed heavily in their decision, particularly climate change denial by people in power -- they cited U.S. President Donald Trump -- and talk about more nuclear weapons. From a report on NPR: The setting is the closest the clock has come to midnight since 1953, when scientists moved it to two minutes from midnight after seeing both the U.S. and the Soviet Union test hydrogen bombs. It remained at that mark until 1960. "Make no mistake, this has been a difficult year," Rachel Bronson, executive director and publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, said as the new setting was announced Thursday.
I can't wait for another 4 or 8 more years of this.
Not.
PS - Overblown "Oh noes! Trump has unhinged me!" hyperventilating is just going to make him immune to legitimate criticisms, as the signal-to-crazy-noise ratio will be too low to get attention
That's one way to make people mistrust science, by politicizing it. This is an example for why it is not a good idea to blindly trusts scientists. Everyone has an agenda to push.
President Trump and Putin are cultivating a bromance and somehow that puts us closer to nuclear war?
This stinks of propaganda.
Look for NPR's reporting to become more desperate as their funding becomes threatened.
Yes, I was going to say. I don't give a fuck and what's more, I don't think I'll be visiting Slashdot again. It's no longer about tech it's about whoever's marketing their bullshit today.
On the other hand, it's very easy to read your post even though you look like every other anonymous internet persona with a limited intellectual capacity.
If you think I voted for Trump because of this post, you're wrong. I voted for Dr. Jill Stein of the Green Party. Again.
More, hysterical, mindless political posturing. Keep digging guys. Make yourselves irrelevant.
If you're scared of your govt then you need to further restrict its powers
Vote 3rd Party in 2016 and beyond
Yes, I'm proposing a tax. Taxes are not inherently evil..
And jesus christ, seriously, the old "climate is gonna change" meme. We are responsible through unrestrained CO2 emissions for a significant amount of climate change that is happening *right now* and into the future, and your only response is a moronic meme and brainless contempt for taxes? What are you, five years old?
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Yes, I'm proposing a tax. Taxes are not inherently evil..
Of course they are. Anything that makes the government more powerful is inherently evil. You have to prove that more good will come from that power, even with an evil government openly hostile to it's people, for a tax to be justified.
We are responsible through unrestrained CO2 emissions for a significant amount of climate change that is happening *right now* and into the future,
So you say. It's can't be quantified, of course. Heck, climate models are giving about 2 sigmas of accuracy right now, which would laughable even in social science. We have no useful data on which to say that reducing CO2 emission will be cheaper than coping with climate change. But the argument that we can somehow stop climate change is obvious bullshit. Climate change is always happening "right now". The climate is just not a stable sort of thing.
One thing's for sure though: warming is vastly easier to cope with than glaciers covering all of Europe, Russia, Canada, and the Northern US.
Socialism: a lie told by totalitarians and believed by fools.