Press release:
“DOOMSDAY CLOCK” ANNOUNCEMENT SET FOR JANUARY 26TH IN WASHINGTON, D.C.
White House in Transition, US-Russia Relations, North Korean Ambitions, Iran Nuclear Deal, and Uncertain Fate of Climate Solutions Among the Factors Being Weighed.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – NEWS ADVISORY – The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists will host a live international news conference at 10 a.m. EST/1500 GMT on January 26, 2017 to announce whether the minute hand of the iconic “Doomsday Clock” will be adjusted. The decision is made by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists’ Science and Security Board in consultation with the Board of Sponsors, which includes 15 Nobel Laureates.
Factors influencing the 2017 deliberations regarding any adjustment that may be made to the Doomsday Clock include: 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.
In January 2016, the Doomsday Clock’s minute hand did not change, remaining at three minutes before midnight, the closest it has been to midnight since the early days of above-ground hydrogen bomb testing. The Clock was changed in 2015 from five to three minutes to midnight.
News event speakers for the Doomsday Clock announcement on January 26, 2017 will include:
* Lawrence Krauss, chair, Bulletin Board of Sponsors; director, Origins Project at Arizona State University; and Foundation Professor, School of Earth and Space Exploration and Physics Department, Arizona State University.
* Thomas Pickering, Bulletin Board of Sponsors; former US Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1997-2000) and US Ambassador to the United Nations, the Russian Federation, India, Israel, El Salvador, Nigeria, and Jordan. Ambassador Pickering is currently focused on nonproliferation, most recently the Iran nuclear agreement.
* David Titley, Bulletin Science and Security Board; professor of practice, Pennsylvania State University Department of Meteorology, and founding director, Penn State’s Center for Solutions to Weather and Climate Risk. Dr. Titley is nationally known expert in the field of climate, the Arctic, and national security, and a retired rear admiral. While serving as Oceanographer and Navigator of the Navy, Dr. Titley initiated and led the U.S. Navy’s Task Force on Climate Change.
* Rachel Bronson, executive director and publisher, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists;
TO PARTICIPATE IN PERSON: You can attend the Doomsday Clock news event on January 26, 2017, 10 a.m. EST/1500 GMT at the National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, D.C., in the First Amendment Lounge. Attendance will be limited to credentialed members of the news media. For security reasons, all attendees must RSVP in advance by contacting: Patrick Mitchell, (703) 276-3266 and pmitchell@hastingsgroup.com; or Alex Frank, (703) 276-3264 and afrank@hastingsgroup.com.
CAN’T PARTICIPATE IN PERSON?: Journalists unable to attend the live news conference can view a live streaming webcast of the event at http://clock.thebulletin.org/
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My personal opinion is that they’ll move it forward, and make Trump’s lack of climate concern a big part of it.
The real question is: Other than journos chasing a story, does anybody care? I sure don’t, because it’s nothing but a symbolic personification of a consensus opinion, and really has no impact beyond scaring people.
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, Signifying nothing. – Shakespeare’s MacBeth, Scene 5.5
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“A growing disregard for scientific expertise.”
Duly noted. Since there is simply way too much real information in the public domain that “scientific expertise” is continually moving the goal posts by changing the raw data (they call it “adjustments”), not allowing for real QA/QC of their work, well, the list goes on and on ……
I have no choice but to state that my personal opinion is that the “growing disregard for scientific expertise”, as it pertains to the real science surrounding CAGW, is that the clock should be moved much further away from Midnight, based on this direct quote.
C’mon trolls, I await your attempts at responding.
: )
Put another way, bring it on ……
The Population Bomb was a dud. Oil didn’t Peak, Y2K didn’t crash all the computers, and the Ozone Hole didn’t do much off anything.
Hell, They weren’t even right about Cholesterol or Stomach Ulcers.
And just to top it all off, the people are coming to realize that then Climate Crisis isn’t happening either. because you can’t be told there’s only 10 years (or 5 years, or 500 days) to save the world, every year for 30 years straight without realizing something’s wrong.
And now they are surprised that there’s “A growing disregard for scientific expertise.” Really? >_<
Maybe they should move the clock-hand to 70 years past midnight … i.e. it and they are irrelevant.
Well said. The ultimate deterrent.
You know board games and ping pong which are equally serious have made a comeback so why not. The reaction to Trump in office reminds me more each day of Reagan’s early period. Sheer panic. Trump may have an advantage as big media’s credibility is toast and Republicans are in a stronger position.
No need to compromise. Nobody to compromise with if you were so inclined. Keep playing the workers against the professional Left. That worked for Reagan and should work again.
The Doomsday Clock may be the only scientific forecast that’s that’s actually less accurate and reliable than the IPCC climate models.
Shoot the Doomsday Clock into a black hole. Problem solved.
http://www.skyandtelescope.com/astronomy-resources/time-changed-inside-a-black-hole/
Why bother with this phony, can’t keep time doomsday clock when you can have a real one!.
From the description:
You won’t find these babies stopping at 3 minutes till and having to be reset all the time! Show this to all your friends who are convinced they’re going to die because of global warming in a Trump administration.
The setting of the clock bears little relationship to our actual danger. It is actually just “political hypochondria”. They should take two aspirin and call us again in the next decade.
I remember when Ronald Reagan was elected and lots of people thought he was going to get us all blown up. I note, with some satisfaction, that they were wrong.
We have to recognize that, as the latest reports made clear, Vladimir Putin himself directed the covert cyber-attacks against our electoral system, against our democracy, apparently because he has a personal beef against me. — Hillary Clinton
At least we don’t have a continuation of this spat to tempt the fate of the world.
Dastardly Vlad the Impailer has been accused of the insidious act of releasing DNC emails. Nobody has said that they were fraudulent, though . I doubt that he did it, but if he did, all Americans owe him a debt of gratitude for exposing the corruption of the Democrats.
If they move the clock hands to 12:00, do the bombers take off and the missiles launch?
Ours, theirs, everybody’s?
For some reason, that reminds me of something Ronald Reagan said:
Doomsday Clock … Who knew that this was a widely recognized symbolic thing ? Obviously not me – am I THAT out of touch ?
Anyhow, I coined a new word (somebody else might have already beat me to it) — Trumpmageddon.
Hence, Trump’s face would be on MY version of the doomsday clock, which gives me an idea to make up a few to sell on Ebay. (^_^).
Come one, come all, … cash in your carbon credits to buy yourself one of these babies, if you have to. You might as well enjoy the luxuries of life in the little time you have left before the symbolic midnight hour strikes you down.
It’s hideous, I must have one.
… offered in a vintage cuckoo-clock styling or, for the more affluent crowd, a Rolex wrist-watch styling. Monthly-payment options available.
… better than a Hillaryapocalypse, I guess, but we could do a clock with HER face on it too, for all those whiners who are still in denial over her loss. … got to reach out to all market segments, you know.
Ah, but my logic is flawed, I fear, since Hillary whiners would not be the ones motivated to buy either. Only good humored realists would buy, just as we buy Micky Mouse watches to celebrate cartoon characters.
This is a cartoon we are living in now, right ?
Somebody has to do it!
http://www.unique-wall-clock.com/wall-clock-large-view-images/5-o-clock-clock.png
The Doomsday Clock.
Of course they’ll set it forward. Good PR.
Who set it up? Who says where it should be set? Based on what?
(Will one of them please move the damn thing to “MIDNIGHT” so the rest of us (who haven’t just had a heart attack) can wake up tomorrow to a new day?)
No, no, no, … each of those “5”s need to be replaced by “666”. And Trump’s face needs to be on it.
Yes, at this rate CO2 will grow to .045 percent of the atmosphere. I wonder how many more nukes and nuke delivery systems there will be by then.
The right way to celebrate the occasion is with a nice bottle of wine and a screening “Dr. Strangelove.”
[youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbcxmy0d9tQ&w=560&h=315%5D
The Doomsday clock is the ultimate expression of liberal pessimism.
They simply aren’t happy unless they are miserable.
Oddly it is usually some failure in government that advances the clock. Yet they are always wanting government to get more and more involved in every aspect of our lives.
“A symbolic clock is as nourishing to the intellect as a photo of oxygen to a drowning man.”
Dr. Manhattan
As useless as JPEGs to Helen Keller
‘After Midnight’
Aha, Chicago Blues … at least they got something right.
Trump just tweeted he was going to send the Feds into Chicago, if the local politicians and law enforcement didn’t get busy and do something about the horrendous murder rate in Chicago.
And yes, Trump can do just that, and Chicago’s governor and mayor can’t do a thing to stop him. Trump can take jurisdiction of the many federal crimes being committed in Chicago, like carrying a weapon after being convicted of a felony.
v’
‘Most Read from The Washington Post: The first days inside Trump’s White House: Fury, tumult and a reboot’
Yep, end must be near. We have fury, tumult and reboot. Scary. The Fake News Media says so.
That’s what they said about Trump’s transition team, too. If there is no controversy in the Trump administration, then the MSM will make some up.
They’ve been moving it so close to midnight over the last few years that it must surely be 5 past by now.
Did they not pick up the clue when Hillary mentioned how long it takes to do the launch snap Count?
Oh noes, not the Doomsday Crock again!
These folks can’t seem to decide if Putin/Trump Bromance is real.