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[OrangeEmpire]

Scientists Adjust `Doomsday Clock' as Threat Grows (Update1)

By Alex Morales

Jan. 17 (Bloomberg) -- Scientists today moved the minute- hand on the symbolic ``Doomsday Clock'' to five minutes to midnight, to indicate growing concerns about the global nuclear threat.

The clock was set up in 1947 with a time of seven minutes to midnight, and movement of the minute-hand symbolizes growing or declining threat, with midnight representing destruction by nuclear war. For almost five years, the hand has stood where it began, at seven minutes to midnight. It has only been moved 17 times before, fluctuating between 2 and 17 minutes to midnight.

The hand was moved forward two minutes today, reflecting concerns that the world is heading toward ``a second nuclear age,'' and also that climate change poses a threat to stability, said Kennette Benedict, executive director of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, the magazine which set up the clock in 1947.

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Thoughts?

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[MG1968]

Iran and North Korea are hardly the threat the old Soviet Union represented and any policy decision based on "global warming" is politically motivated rather based on any reasonable scientific fact.

 

[volinbham]

movement of the minute-hand symbolizes growing or declining threat, with midnight representing destruction by nuclear war.

also that climate change poses a threat to stability

So tell me again how global warming increases the likelihood of nuclear war?

Add this to the list of other "results" of global warming:

americans with out health insurance
teenage mothers
gang violence
violation of the constitution
paris hilton
etc. etc.

 

[OrangeEmpire]

So tell me again how global warming increases the likelihood of nuclear war?

Add this to the list of other "results" of global warming:

americans with out health insurance
teenage mothers
gang violence
violation of the constitution
paris hilton
etc. etc.

:lolabove:

 

[OWB]

Global warming is becoming such an issue, China is shooting down weather satellites in an effort to cover it up.

 

[MG1968]

Global warming is becoming such an issue, China is shooting down weather satellites in an effort to cover it up.

they better be careful or Heidi Cullen will be dispatched to Beijing to revoke their credentials.

 

[allvol123]

Global warming is becoming such an issue, China is shooting down weather satellites in an effort to cover it up.

And thus begins the making of An Inconvenient Truth Part II

 

[OWB]

 

[OrangeEmpire]

 

[TennTradition]

The only reason that I can come up with (as to why global warming adds a nuclear threat) is that as the reality of global warming comes into view and the world makes an attempt to do something about it, some countries may increase nuclear power - and depending on their level of responsibility in instituting a nuclear power program, or expanding one - if proliferation resistance isn't an important factor, then the expansion of nuclear power (to lower CO2 emissions) could lead the world to a more dangerous place. I have no idea if that is what their reason is...but it is the only semi-reasonable one that I can come up with.

 

[Arclight]

Heidi Cullen =

 

[Fine Vol]

sweet lol

 

[lawgator1]

The only reason that I can come up with (as to why global warming adds a nuclear threat) is that as the reality of global warming comes into view and the world makes an attempt to do something about it, some countries may increase nuclear power - and depending on their level of responsibility in instituting a nuclear power program, or expanding one - if proliferation resistance isn't an important factor, then the expansion of nuclear power (to lower CO2 emissions) could lead the world to a more dangerous place. I have no idea if that is what their reason is...but it is the only semi-reasonable one that I can come up with.

Also, the effects of global climate change are likely to be massive famines in Africa and perhaps Asia. Its a general instability issue.

 

[volinbham]

Also, the effects of global climate change are likely to be massive famines in Africa and perhaps Asia. Its a general instability issue.

Got a source for that connection between GW and massive famines? What level of global warming is needed to result in massive famines?

 

[MG1968]

yeah, famines were happening in Africa back when "global cooling" was the crisis du jour.

 

[allvol123]

The goal seems to be for static weather. No change at all. Somone might want to notify Mother Nature, she apparently has no idea what she is doing.