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WASHINGTON -- The Doomsday Clock was reset to 100 seconds to midnight, meaning the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists does not think the world is a safer place in 2020.

The Doomsday Clock, a composite warning signal formulated by many noted scientists, is now showing we are 89 seconds from midnight, the time representing how close we are as a species to extinction.

Yes, we do. Since 2007, climate has been included. So the Doomsday Clock was created to alert the world to the dangers and to capture the sense of urgency and the sense of how are things going.