It is not only the Mayan Calendar<\/a> which announces\u00a0 the end of the world as we know but also the Atomic Scientists’ “Doomsday Clock” is set at 5 minutes to midnight but may tick forward or backward at any moment in 2012.\u00a0 The\u00a0Doomsday Clock<\/a>\u00a0came into being in 1947 as a way for atomic scientists to warn the world of the dangers of nuclear weapons. That year, the Bulletin set the time at seven minutes to midnight, with midnight symbolizing humanity’s destruction. By 1949, it was at three minutes to midnight as the relationship between the\u00a0United States<\/a>\u00a0and the Soviet Union<\/a> deteriorated. In 1953, after the first test of the hydrogen bomb,\u00a0the doomsday clock\u00a0ticked to two minutes until midnight. According to Robert Socolow, a Princeton professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering and a member of the Bulletin’s Science and Security board. “Talks on climate change have resulted in little progress, the panel found. In fact, politics seemed to trump science in discussions over the last two years. We need the political leadership to affirm the primacy of science as a way of knowing, or problems will be far worse than they are already.” \u00a0 \u00a0 —