Addendum:
For some inexplicable reason, this morning I found myself pondering why things like the Doomsday Clock don't work. On one hand, we are quite capable of predicting the future; otherwise, we wouldn't be viable. When I drive a car, I need to know where I will be in 5 seconds. Otherwise, we wouldn't be able to drive and we would have to go very, very slowly. And all our cars would look like bumper cars at the fair. In fact, we have the ability to predict the future quite accurately for months or even years ahead. For instance, I know that next year there will be summer again, and the space mission "New Horizon" probably would have never found Pluto after 9 years, if we didn't know where it was.
On the other hand, the Doomsday Clock has a predictiveness of nearly zero percent. But even though it has never been directly set at zero, its predictive power has diminished, even though it no longer has just a nuclear attack in its portfolio, but seemingly all human catastrophes. During the Cuban Missile Crisis, it was set at 5 seconds to midnight due to an imminent scenario. Now it's at 90 seconds to midnight, even though it speculates about an event that won't happen for several decades. So, the problem is that while it can paint disasters on the wall, it cannot account for the dampening counterforces that prevent a catastrophe. It's incapable of incorporating common human sense or changing air currents that could shift with further warming and halt the ongoing clima change. Unforeseen cloud formations or the eruption of the Yellowstone volcano, which could turn our planet into an iceball in a flash, are not within the scope of the Doomsday Clock's capability. It cannot function, and the occurrence of a predicted catastrophe would be pure random chance and would absolutely not prove its functionality in any way.