But it was now moving closer to the apocalypse because of climate change.  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. The last move of the clock hands, from six minutes to five minutes to midnight, in 2012, was also because of climate change. 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. In 1991, when the threat of nuclear annihilation receded with the end of the cold war, the clock stood at 17 minutes to midnight. US Senate refuses to accept humanity's role in global climate change, again Read more 
 
 The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists created the symbolic clock in 1947 to indicate the cold war threat. The warmest year on record globally was 2014, and 14 of the 15 warmest years on record have all occurred since the year 2000.
– The Doomsday Clock may not have moved last year, but today it made up for it: The Bulletin of Atomic Scientists announced that the clock jumped ahead two minutes and now stands at three minutes before midnight, reports Mashable. "Midnight," of course, being the end of civilization. The organization cited concerns about the world's nuclear arsenals, but it also placed a big share of the blame for the time change on global warming and what it sees as political inaction to get it under control, reports the Guardian. "Human influence on the climate system is clear," said Richard Somerville of the Bulletin. "Each of the last three decades has been successively warmer than any preceding on record." This is the closest we've come to the group's Doomsday since the US and the Soviet Union were in the grips of the Cold War in 1984. The only time the clock has been closer to midnight is after the USSR's work on a hydrogen bomb in 1953 set it to 11:58.