Climate change inaction pushes 'doomsday clock' closest to midnight since 1984

(guardian-, 22 Jan 2015) Symbolic clock is now at three minutes to apocalypse, the darkest hour for humanity since the cold war.

The symbolic doomsday clock moved to three minutes before midnight on Thursday because of the gathering dangers of climate change and nuclear proliferation, signalling the gravest threat to humanity since the throes of the cold war.

It was the closest the clock has come to midnight since 1984, when arms-control negotiations stalled and virtually all channels of communication between the US and the former Soviet Union closed down.

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guardian-, 22 Jan 2015: Climate change inaction pushes 'doomsday clock' closest to midnight since 1984