What that giant clock in NYC’s Union Square is counting down to.
across the Northern Hemisphere. And that’s just one way climate change is bringing on dangerous new extremes.
Today, the planet is about 1.1 degrees Celsius hotter than it was before the Industrial Revolution, thanks to carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels. It’s what’sheatwaves, wildfires, storms, and sea level rise. That’s why world leaders agreed, as part of the landmark Paris agreement, to keep the planet from warming much more than it already has. Every fraction of a degree comes with more severe consequences.
before continued CO2 emissions lock in at least 1.5 degrees of global warming, a key threshold for global climate goals under the Paris agreement. Today, the time left on the clock falls under six years. In other words, if people keep pumping out roughly the same amount of CO2 pollution over the next five years or so, we’ll no longer be able to limit climate change to just 1.5 degrees of warming.
The Climate Clock’s founders are holding events across five continents today to call attention to the dwindling time left, calling it a Climate Emergency Day. That includes a vigil below the giant digital clock that has faced Union Square“The best day to have taken action was yesterday.
meant to serve as “a metaphor for how close humanity is to self-annihilation.” The Climate Clock in Union Square was initially just supposed to be displayed during New York’s Climate Week in 2020, but it has since permanently replaced the 24-hour clock unveiled in 1999 as part of an art installation called Metronome.counting down to the exact date global average temperatures might rise above 1.5 degrees Celsius.
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