Atomik Scientist has moved a clockwise clock called the Doomsday Clock 30 seconds forward, approaching midnight, in a sign of the biggest threat to the end of the world since 1953, the year that Russia and the United States Detonated hydrogen bombs in tests over 9 months, intensified the nuclear arms race and escalated the Cold War.
Reckless governments
Now the "arrogant and arrogant" governments talk about nuclear weapons, and the growing ignorance of scientific expertise, have pushed the clock closer to midnight, according to the journal Nature, citing the Atomic Scientist.
The executive director of the group, Rachel Brunson, and a number of prominent scientists, announced at a press conference in Washington, DC on January 26 this year, the amendment to the timing of the "Day of Resurrection."
"Climate change can not become a partisan issue," said David Titley, a member of the Department of Atomic Atomists, the former president of the US Navy Oceanography and the University of Pennsylvania's meteorologist at the University of Pennsylvania. The carbon cycle on the ground is not liberal or conservative in character, "referring to the need not to affect political or partisan trends on plans to protect the environment and the people of the earth.
The child is rude
The bulletin board is particularly concerned about the language used by Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin in their talk on climate change, nuclear weapons and the idea of facts. "This is the first time that the words and policies of one or two senior officials have a strong impact on our understanding of existential threats that we believe the world is facing," said Lawrence Krauss, board member of the Bulletin, Arizona at Tempe.
If both Trump and Putin chose to work together without acting alone as a "rude child," such threats could be neutralized, Kraus said.
Bronson explained that the decision to move the clock "Day of Resurrection" reflects a feeling among members of the Board of Directors of the Bulletin, which includes a number of distinguished corn scientists, that "words have become a necessity in this regard" at the present time.
Michael Oppenheimer, a geophysicist and international climate policy expert at Princeton University in New Jersey, agrees with this decision: "If Trump goes ahead with his commitment to the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement, this will slow down the The world is moving towards reducing greenhouse gas emissions. "
Important beats in the date of the hour
The Clock of the Day of Resurrection has historically moved in increments of up to a full minute, but the last update saw the scorpion move 30 seconds.
Atomique Scientists created a symbolic clock for a possible moment of world destruction, called the Doomsday Clock in 1947, in response to the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japan in 1945. The "Resurrection Clock" symbolizes the movement of its hands near or A dimension of the midnight time near the occurrence of a devastating disaster to the world, according to global events, which alarm alarming and counterclockwise to approach the middle of the night in a minute or minutes with the magnitude of the threat posed by the global situation.
At first, the clock was seven minutes before midnight. In 70 years since then, the clock has been 17 minutes before midnight, the moment of destruction, and this was also the case when the Cold War ended in 1991.
Current challenges
"The challenges facing the world today, such as the bogus news that threatens to undermine democracy and the security breaches of computer systems and the Internet, are unprecedented. "The future of the Hour (the Hour of Judgment Day) and our future (the world) is in your hands (leaders in Washington and Moscow)," he warned.
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