by Michael Bastasch
California Democratic Gov. Jerry Brown is now on the board of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, the group responsible for creating the Doomsday Clock to illustrate how close they think the world is to apocalypse.
“I am honored to be stepping into this important role, particularly at this moment in time, when the Bulletin’s unique voice and depth of expertise is so clearly needed,” Brown said in an emailed press release.
“Huge investments in new weapons systems, the growing existential threat of climate change, and a general antipathy toward evidence-based policymaking are putting all of us at grave risk,” Brown said.
Brown will serve as the group’s executive chair, according to a release sent Thursday. Brown is known for his apocalyptic message on issues like man-made global warming, even referencing the doomsday clock in his 2018 State of the State address.
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Oh, great, just great. On the plus side, he’ll be going from a political trend setter, to a symbolic clock setter.
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Guess Jerry couldn’t handle Vana’s job flipping over tiles, so the BotAS found him this clock-setting sinecure. It’s a nice gesture, I suppose, keeping the addle-brained senior citizen occupied.
I wonder how often the broken clock, Jerry Brown, is right?
Amazingly, a broken clock is right twice a day 😉
Which makes a broken clock way more accurate than any climate model.
I see their DD clock’s most optimistic pisition is 15 minutes before doomo’clock. This in it self is a self diagnosis of paranoia.
Seriously…they need a chairman to head up the board of Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, who is not a scientist?
Maybe he is good at winding things up??
Somehow, a Mad Hatter comment seems appropriate.
“Doomsday Brown” is the hatter, and the rabbit, saying, “I’m late for a very important date”, is that group of doomsday “scientists”.
I’ve got a lot of other names for him, but in deference to the sensitive, I will refrain.
The clock will always be 12 years away. Remember when the ‘window of opportunity’ was closing, when we ‘didn’t have anymore time’ ? Oh the spirits ran high at Hoaxahagen, until it snowed.
Still a moonbeam…. and the escapees from the world’s largest insane asylum ( California ) are pushing their agendas into neighboring western states . Hi ho, hi ho it’s off to the polls we go, I need to sell some more windmills, my cash is getting low. hi ho, hi ho, hi ho.
The (high-speed) Railway Bandit to Nowhere.
isn’t he on trial somewhere in India? The railway bandit guy with lots of directorships everywhere.
The Clockwork Orange Governor
He’ll fit right in.
I’ve always been amused by the “Doomsday Clock”, because contrary to it’s supposedly “scientific” pedigree, it’s more a gauge of Progressive angst over contemporary conservative policy than it is any real measurement of actual threats to our well-being. For example, during the Reagan era it was bumped up to 3 minutes to midnight versus only 7 during the far more imminently dangerous Cuban Missile Crisis, where in hindsight it should have been as close to zero as it’s ever been. Without doubt, they were far more scared of what was running wild in their imaginations regarding Reagan than they were of the reality of a green JFK actually facing off militarily with the Russians in realtime over actual nuclear weapons that were pointed at the US a mere 60 miles away.
So now that it’s been moved up as close to midnight as it has ever been, it’s even more amusing to note that it’s not because the real and obvious threats like a near-nuclear-ready North Korea lobbing missiles over Japan or the fascist mullahs of Iran who openly threaten the annihilation of the Israel and the West. No. It’s because of “global warming”, something that isn’t likely to kill us in a flash, or at all.
Oh, great, just great. On the plus side, he’ll be going from a political trend setter, to a symbolic clock setter.
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“general antipathy toward evidence-based policymaking are putting all of us at grave risk,” Brown said.
This from the moron who is taxing vaping apparatus (AKA electronic cigarettes) to prevent people fom switching from tobacco to totally harmless vaping.
when the end of the world is about to happen somebody will have to text all the young ones other wise they will miss out