The Doomsday clock moves closer

Tuesday the 10th January 2012 pm. 21:03 by REUTERS / mkij for TV 2 News (Upd on 10 / 1 2012, 21:03)

Uncertainty about climate change and nuclear threats lead to the pointer on the so-called Doomsday clock printed. Time is now very close, that it all goes wrong. "It is now five minutes to midnight," says Allison MacFarlane, president of the group Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, who in 1947 created the Doomsday Clock. It was made to illustrate how close the world at any given time is a disastrous end. Previous time the group, among other counts Nobel Prize winning scientists, marched on the pointer was in 2010. When the pointer was moved one minute away from the world. The pointer is moved back The decision was based on a hope for global nuclear cooperation and the election of Barack Obama, who was inaugurated as U.S. president in January 2009. But now the pointer moved back where it came from. "It is clear that the changes seemed to happen at the time, does not happen, says" Lawrence Krauss from the group. Increasing nuclear tensions, refusing to do something serious about climate change and a growing tendency to reject science when it comes to big global concerns, used as a basis to move the pointer towards disaster. Scientists in the group also suggests that the nuclear accident in Fukushima, Japan in March last year highlights the fragility of being too dependent on nuclear power in areas where relatively often natural disasters. Nuclear accident happened after a massive earthquake and a monster tsunami.

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