By Judi McLeod ——Bio and Archives--January 27, 2017
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“Donald Trump has caused a Doomsday Clock symbolising the threat of apocalypse to move closer to midnight. (Daily Mail, Jan. 26, 2017) “The new 'time', two and a half minutes to midnight, is the closest the planet has been to an apocalypse since 1953. “Lawrence Krauss and David Titley, who manage the clock, said the US president's policies on climate change and nuclear weapons were largely to blame for the change.Climate change has suddenly become more lethal than nuclear weapons. Krauss and Titley “manage” the clock? Managing a symbolic only clock face, supposedly representing a countdown to possible global catastrophe boils down to so much scaremongering. Have these doom spreading scientists been pressed into service by Climate Change Scare King Al Gore?
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“The decision to move, or leave the clock alone, is made by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, in consultation with the bulletin's Board of Sponsors, which includes 16 Nobel laureates. (DailyMail) “The clock has become a universally recognised indicator of the world's vulnerability to catastrophe from nuclear weapons, climate change, and emerging technologies in life sciences. 'The United States now has a president who has promised to impede progress on both of those fronts,' the pair said. 'Never before has the Bulletin decided to advance the clock largely because of the statements of a single person,' the two scientists wrote in a statement. 'But when that person is the new president of the United States, his words matter.'Guess the words of the ‘old’ president who brashly told the world in 2008: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States” don’t matter to the Doomsday Clock watchers.
“The group also addressed other issues including the threat of nuclear weapons being built by North Korea, India and Pakistan, Russia and China. (DailyMail)Notice how Iran, to whom ex-president Obama gave the green light for nuclear weapons manufacture is not included on their list?
'A rise in strident nationalism worldwide, President Donald Trump's comments on nuclear arms and climate issues, a darkening global security landscape that is colored by increasingly sophisticated technology, and a growing disregard for scientific expertise,' the group said in a statement.” (DailyMail)You can only earn respect for “scientific expertise” not be automatically granted it, Nobel Laureate or not.
“The clear need for climate action is an important one, the researchers said. (DailyMail) 'The continued warming of the world measured in 2016 underscores one clear fact: Nothing is fundamentally amiss with the scientific understanding of climate physics,' the researchers wrote.' “And therein lies the rub: the Doomsday Clock is a creative way to push man-made Global Warming/Climate Change. The scientists who “manage” the Doomsday Clock should be more scientific than political if they want the masses to show any respect for their sky-is-falling Doomsday Clock.
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