Opinion belongs scientists behind the concept of the Apocalypse Watch, a symbolic instrument which measures the time remaining until the end of the world. Arm symbolic clock indicating minutes, and has five gradations before 12 o'clock, was moved up two positions, indicating three minutes remaining to fix. This means that "the likelihood of a global catastrophe is very high," according independent.co.uk.
Doomsday Clock, clock needle end lumiiSchimbarea is a gesture of condemnation of world leaders and their perspectives on their citizens.
"Unstoppable climate change and nuclear arms race in modernizing with huge arsenals, is undeniable threat to the existence of humanity," says Kennett Benedict, executive director of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Chicago, group dealing Doomsday Clock. While the clock is basically a barometer, it is managed by a team that includes 17 Nobel Prize winners, and is treated very seriously.
The committee pointed out that emissions of greenhouse gases have increased by 50% since 1990 and the annual amount invested in fossil fuel infrastructure exceed 660 billion pounds. "Climate change will affect millions of people and endanger exisstenţa many ecological systems is the basis of civilization. The threat hanging over all mankind, "says Richard Somerville, a member of the committee.
Appear serious concerns regarding nuclear weapons.
"After the Cold War, there was some optimism about the ability of states to control nuclear arms race and to remove the abyss of nuclear destruction", said Sharon Squassoni, another committee member. "That optimism disappeared in the face of new trends: the expansion of nuclear weapons modernization programs and stoppage of disarmament" adds Squassoni.
The clock appeared in 1947, and indicate when seven minutes to 12 hours after the atomic bombs of Hiroshima and Nagasaki were hit. Those clock is moved forward or backward, until now being made 19 moves. Last move took place in 2012, and was determined also by concerns about climate change and nuclear weapons. The last time the clock showed three minutes away to watch the 12th century was in 1983, when Soviet-American relations were at the worst level. Considered the most dangerous moment of the committee members was in 1953, when the hydrogen bomb has become a weapon more powerful than any nuclear weapon. The farthest point of the hour, represented the clock was 17 minutes in 1991, when the Cold War officially ended, and Russia and the United States began to reduce their nuclear arsenals.
