Climate resets 'Doomsday Clock'

[UM-Bot]

Experts assessing the dangers posed to civilisation have added climate change to the prospect of nuclear annihilation as the greatest threats to humankind. As a result, the group has moved the minute hand on its famous "Doomsday Clock" two minutes closer to midnight.

The concept timepiece, devised by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, now stands at five minutes to the hour. The clock was first featured by the magazine 60 years ago, shortly after the US dropped its A-bombs on Japan.

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[intrepid]

Have they ever set the clock back - say in the good times? Sounds like a strange publicity stunt to me (yeah I know it's old)...

[Celumnaz]

yes it's been set back

they need a subscription to "Bad Living Magazine".

[E.B.E.]

This is a graph of all the places to midnight its been at over the years: