Scientists move Doomsday Clock: Global warming apparently an imminent threat

American Thinker ^ | 01/24/2015 | Rick Moran

[SeekAndFind]

A hundred years from now, if we're all dead because of global warming, scientists have my permission to spit on my grave.

But that's 100 years in the future. So why did the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists move their iconic Doomsday Clock 2 minutes closer to midnight and cite global warming as a major reason? The proliferation and modernization of nukes I can understand. Human civilization can be destroyed in half an hour if there was a large scale nuclear exchange.

But by the time the terrible effects of global warming are supposedly to be felt to the fullest, you and I and all the scientists caught up in this issue will be dead. Why not cite death by a gamma ray burst or a comet striking the earth? Those events are just as likely to occur over the next 100 years as catastrophic global warming.

From CNN:

"Today, unchecked climate change and a nuclear arms race resulting from modernization of huge arsenals pose extraordinary and undeniable threats to the continued existence of humanity. And world leaders have failed to act with the speed or on the scale required to protect citizens from potential catastrophe," said Kennette Benedict, executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, in a news release. "These failures of leadership endanger every person on Earth."

[molson209]

Obama has no more need for Atomic Scientists(no more weapons) ,so he’s made them Global Warming/Cooling Nuts

[mountainlion]

And how does one “check” the seasons that are now, allegedly, “unchecked”?

0bama can do it with executive order.

[The Great RJ]

I have far more concern about Islamic terrorists getting nuclear weapons than of a temperature increase of a few hunderths of a degree. Get real people.

[dila813]

Guess we can save our money and not waste it on green power then.

[Williams]

I love when the politicians like Obama appear somewhere and tell the crowd “You see the effects of global warming in your own community”. Of course there are no such effects.

[eclecticEel]

There’s never been anything particularly scientific about the “Doomsday Clock” to begin with.

[Zack Attack]

They are so right and if we don’t do something about global warming by 1997 we will...OH WAIT Nevermind

[VerySadAmerican]

The temp never reached 100 last summer in Houston. Now that’s warming! /s

[SkyDancer]

Since this Doomsday clock is somehow based on global warming we now know it’s a fake .....

[FlingWingFlyer]

These greedy “scientists” know what they can do with their “doomsday clock”. The lowlifes really need to get a real job.

[Eddie01]

Start a cash only business.

[Wolfie]

Agreed. But they keep moving the tipping point into the future when it is reached. Go figure.

[C210N]

Doomsday clocks that matter:

1 nanosecond to midnite on the Islamonazi murder and mayhem doomsday clock

1 nanosecond to midnite on the Constitution ripped to shreds doomsday clock

1 nanosecond to midnite on the $18 Trillion and Counting, and $130 Trillion unfunded liabilities doomsday clock(s)

[upchuck]

How does Rick Moran get paid for this:

Words in document: 581

Words written by Moran: 316

Words excerpted from CNN: 256

This is common for Moran; take someone's article (Todd Leopold of CNN) and write bookend comments. Nice gig, I guess.

[Bob434]

[[Global warming apparently an imminent threat]]

As imminent a threat as when miles thick glaciers which covered much of the world were melted away during much hotter times?

[Intolerant in NJ]

Yeah, fifty years ago “scientists” kept moving it up because we were all going to starve to death or be obliterated by the atomic bomb.....