Doomsday Clock is moved one minute further AWAY from fateful midnight... thanks to Obama

[omega minimo]

:toast: :toast: :toast: At the same moment of a planetary wakeup call provided by the unimaginable tragedy in Haiti.

Doomsday clock is moved one minute further AWAY from fateful midnight... thanks to Obama
By Claire Bates
Last updated at 1:26 AM on 15th January 2010


The minute hand of the famous Doomsday Clock has been moved to six minutes to midnight - one minute further away from human annihilation than before. The timepiece in New York conveys how close humanity is to catastrophic destruction, which is represented by midnight. It is changed periodically by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists board, which includes Professor Stephen Hawking and 18 other Nobel scientists.

Doomsday Clock: Created in 1947 by concerned scientists - it will be changed once more today. It was wound on to five minutes to midnight in 2007 to reflect the failure to solve problems posed by nuclear weapons.

Today, the board said they moved it back one minute because there was a 'hopeful state of world affairs' in relation to nuclear weapons and climate change. They singled out President Obama for particular praise.

The decision to move the hand back may come as a surprise to many environmentalists, who criticised last year's Copenhagen Climate Change Conference for failing to reach any real consensus. However, the BAS board insisted there had been 'signs of collaboration' between the major world players in dealing with nuclear security and climate stabilisation.

They said the 'first steps' to address climate change had been taken with the joint  agreement by China and the United States to reduce carbon emissions in November 2009 and the Copenhagen Accord.

The Doomsday Clock was created in 1947, two years after the U.S dropped the first atomic bombs on Japan in World War II. It was originally set at seven minutes to midnight.

It has been altered 19 times since then by the Bulletin's scientific board. The latest recorded time was two minutes to midnight in 1953 as the Cold War heated up between the U.S and Soviet Union. The board said the end of a nuclear threat to the world could now be in sight.

'We are poised to bend the arc of history toward a world free of nuclear weapons. For the first time since atomic bombs were dropped in 1945, leaders of nuclear weapons states are cooperating to vastly reduce their arsenals."

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1242823/Doomsday-clock-moved-worlds-scientists-today.html##ixzz0cfC2OtOM
http://www.turnbacktheclock.org/

[Common Sense Party]

1. Happy news. Next, he can work on slowing THIS clock down:

http://www.usdebtclock.org/

[omega minimo]

3. ok

[dysfunctional press]

2. climate change is definitely a bigger threat than nuclear war ever was.

but- i think that they should have waited until carbon emissions are ACTUALLY reduced, not just talked about.

[omega minimo]

4. .