![]() Recent months have revealed record-high carbon dioxide emissions, worsening weather extremes and "cascading effects" of crop failures, diseases and weakening infrastructure, the Bulletin says.īiological threats such as COVID-19 and disinformation were also listed as factors for Doomsday clock change.įor Mary Robinson, a former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, said that the latest move on the clock is "sounding an alarm for the whole of humanity." ![]() The threat of nuclear war is also a factor in the world's inching toward midnight, as is the climate crisis, which the need to address has only increased in urgency. "Ninety seconds to midnight is the closest the clock has ever been set to midnight, and it's a decision our experts do not take lightly." "We are living in a time of unprecedented danger, and the Doomsday Clock time reflects that reality," Bulletin president and CEO Rachel Bronson said. Members of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists revealed on Tuesday that world's metaphorical Doomsday clock has reached 90 seconds to midnight – the closest the world has ever been to "global catastrophe." The clock is not a forecasting tool, but rather a symbol created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists in 1947 to shed light on how humanity's actions are causing problems that could have mass consequences. On Tuesday, the hands of the Doomsday clock reached their closest position to midnight yet. ![]() ![]() But now, as Ukraine approaches a year of war, the climate crisis continues and other actions threaten humanity, the world has officially crept even closer to what the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists calls "global catastrophe." Scientists set Doomsday clock closer to midnight amid climate change, Ukraine invasion 06:07įor three years, the hands of the world's Doomsday clock were set at 100 seconds to midnight. ![]()
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