Doomsday Clock moves closer to midnight, due in part to climate change

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By Zoya TeirsteinJan 23, 2020, 3:37 pm172 pts
Humanity is now the closest it has ever been to total annihilation. That might sound like something a character in an Avengers movie would say, but it’s actually a statement made by a group of 19 scientific experts and backed by 13 Nobel laureates. The Doomsday Clock, a symbol created in 1947 to represent…

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