Lots of editorializing in this one... The big problem I have with this is that they claim to be non-political while changing the "clock" on entirely personal political ideology (not always but often) which makes it irrelevant as it is not always based on data and facts but "feelings" of people that say "just trust me bro, I'm the scientist".
Source: https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a70162364/setting-the-doomsday-clock/
From the post:
>On a warm day in mid-July, a roomful of Nobel laureates and nuclear security experts, some 80 pairs of eyes, gaze out of the expansive windows of a 10th floor University of Chicago conference room, imagining their deaths by nuclear explosion. A presenter directs the group’s attention past the trees and gothic buildings of campus, over the apartment buildings in Hyde Park, and out to the Chicago skyline, hazy with wildfire smoke from Canada. He points out which neighborhoods would vanish in blasts of varying size, estimating casualties, injuries, and radiation effects.
>On a warm day in mid-July, a roomful of Nobel laureates
Stopped reading.
Yeah, like I said. Politically captured and use emotion over facts.
This is about as accurate as their predictions of polar ice caps melting and flooding all coastal cities.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0udBBYCKjQk
"85 seconds to midnight" doesn't have that nice ring to it.
