It's doom! Doom, I tell you. Like the other 12,000 previous times this stunt was pulled.
First, a little background on the Great Doomsday Clock.
The Doomsday Clock is now at two and a half minutes to midnight. That doesn’t mean that the world will be destroyed in 150 seconds. All it means is that some people who couldn’t find a better way to get on CNN will enact an ancient left-wing ritual that involves pretending to care about a fake clock.
According to the official statement, “Board Marks 70th Anniversary of Iconic Clock By Expressing Concern About “Unsettling” and “Ill-Considered” Statements of President Trump on Nuclear Weapons and Climate Change.”
That was in January of last year. Now we're at two minutes to midnight. We're truly doomed!
The rollout was introduced by Rachel Bronson, the confused executive director of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists. Bronson has a degree is in political science and her social media feed is filled with childish anti-Trump rants. She is less of an “atomic scientist” than your Aunt Sally.
Rachel informed attendees that John Mecklin, the Bulletin’s editor in chief, was in the audience. “He is the one who pulled together and helped the board develop this statement that accompanied this important announcement.”
John Mecklin’s qualifications for warning that the world is about to end can be found in his past as editor of High Country and Key West. Key West is “a high-end, monthly city magazine devoted to documenting the rich, quirky stories of the Florida Keys.”
He is not an “atomic scientist”.
The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists’ governing board has a terrorist lawyer, a public relations expert, a quantitative psychologist and the former CEO of an energy company who is also a “published poet”.
It does not have a single “atomic scientist”. Or anything remotely resembling one.
Its Science and Security Board, which played a crucial role in the clock, has 4 physicists out of 15 members.
The co-chair, Lynn Eden, is a sociologist. There’s Suzet McKinney, an Illinois official with a degree in Public Health, Jennifer Sims, with a degree in Foreign Policy, Sharon Squassoni, with one in Public Management and Sivan Kartha who is a "co-Leader of SEI’s Gender and Social Equity Programme, and co-Director of the Climate Equity Reference Project."
This is not what anyone has in mind when they hear, “Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.”
John Mecklin is still the editor. I'm sure he's got great tips for vacationing in Key West.
So, keeping in mind that the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists is a left-wing hoax, here's this year's Doomsday Clock alert.
Scientists moved the hands of the symbolic "Doomsday Clock" closer to midnight on Thursday amid increasing worries over nuclear weapons and climate change.
The clock is now two minutes to midnight. “Because of the extraordinary danger of the current moment, the Science and Security Board today moves the minute hand of the Doomsday Clock 30 seconds closer to catastrophe," said Rachel Bronson, president of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists.
Rachel Bronson has a degree in political science. If you laugh at her doomsday warnings, you're doomed. Doomed!
"We've made the clear statement that we feel the world is getting more dangerous," said Lawrence Krauss, chair of the Bulletin's Board of Sponsors and director of Arizona State University's Origins Project.
Larry Krauss, is the author of The Physics of Star Trek, who had appeared in the documentary, “How William Shatner Changed the World.”
We're doomed! Doomed!