Doomsday Clock 2023: Is the world close to ending? Scientists to reveal estimates – National | 24CA News
Are we getting near “doomsday”?
Atomic scientists are set to offer an estimate on how shut they consider humanity is to annihilation because of existential threats comparable to nuclear battle and local weather change.
The keepers of the Doomsday Clock will make an announcement at 10 am E.T. about whether or not they are going to change the time on it. You can watch it dwell on globalnews.ca.
The Doomsday Clock is a metaphor that visualizes the menace humanity faces from unchecked scientific and technological advances, in keeping with the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists — a bunch of consultants in nuclear weapons, organic weapons and local weather change.
The palms of the clock are moved nearer to or additional away from midnight based mostly on the scientists’ studying of existential threats at a selected time.
Doomsday happens at midnight, so the nearer to midnight the clock is about, the extra peril they consider the world is in.
The clock was set at 100 seconds to midnight in 2020 — the closest it has ever been to midnight — and has remained unchanged since.
This yr, its setting will mirror for the primary time a world through which Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has revived fears of nuclear battle.
Since its debut in 1947, the minute hand on the Doomsday Clock has been moved 24 occasions.
— with recordsdata from Reuters
