Climate change pushes "Doomsday Clock" closer to doomsday.

For the second time in three years, global warming helped advance the infamous, albeit symbolic, Doomsday Clock forward. At three minutes before midnight, this is the closest we've come to impending apocalypse since the height of the Cold War, in 1984. In regard to climate, the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists notes, “world leaders have failed to act on a scale or at a speed to protect humanity from catastrophe.” What ding-dongs. The Guardian