The clock now sits the closest to midnight it has ever been.
At 90 seconds to midnight, the Doomsday Clock is now the closest it has ever been to midnight. It is the first time it has moved since it was set at 100 seconds to midnight in 2020.has revived fears of nuclear war. The war was largely but not exclusively the reason for the hands moving forward, the scientists said.
A Ukrainian soldier in an armoured vehicle during combat training in Zaporizhzhia region, Ukraine, on Tuesday."Russia's thinly veiled threats to use nuclear weapons remind the world that escalation of the conflict by accident, intention or miscalculation is a terrible risk. The possibilities that the conflict could spin out of anyone's control remains high," Rachel Bronson, the bulletin's president and CEO told a news conference in Washington on Tuesday.
Sivan Kartha, a bulletin board member and scientist at the Stockholm Environmental Institute, said natural gas prices pushed to new heights by the war had also spurred companies to develop sources of natural gas outside of Russia and turned power plants to coal as an alternative power source. "Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels, after having rebounded from the COVID economic decline to an all-time-high in 2021, continue to rise in 2022 and hit another record high... With emissions still rising, weather extremes continue, and were even more clearly attributable to climate change," Mr Kartha said, pointing to the devastating flooding in Pakistan in 2022 as an example.
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