Doomsday approaching? Clock ticking closer to midnight

Doomsday approaching? Clock ticking closer to midnight:
Citing unchecked climate change and the ongoing threat of nuclear weapons, scientists Thursday moved the hands of the Doomsday Clock two minutes closer to midnight.
"It is now three minutes to midnight," said Kennette Benedict, the executive director and publisher of the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists at a news conference in Washington, D.C.
"The probability of global catastrophe is very high. 
This is about the end of civilization as we know it."
Three minutes is the closest to midnight the clock has been since 1984 during the Cold War. 
The closest it has ever been to midnight — two minutes— was in 1953, when the hydrogen bomb was first tested. 
The closer to a setting of midnight it gets, the closer it's estimated that a global disaster will occur.