Doomed?

The Doomsday Clock is the famous symbolic clock begun in 1947 by the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists to represent how close we are to Atomic Doom (seven minutes until midnight back then). In 1953, after the Soviet Union exploded its first hydrogen bomb, the clock was set to 11:58 – just two minutes until midnight. In 1991, after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the clock was set back to 17 minutes until midnight.

The clock has now been moved up to 11:55, only five minutes until the end of the world! Why? Did Iran or North Korea test another bomb? Did terrorists steal old Soviet nuclear material? Did Jack Bauer quit early and go home? No. It's because of global warming.

Seriously.

I'm not making this up.

Global warming. It's more dangerous than nuclear terrorism. Mathematician Stephen Hawking said so. And so did science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke. And they can't be wrong.

So duck and cover, the ice is melting!