The Climate Clock, 7 Years to Educate the World
Ahead of the current NYC climate week, advocates in the Big Apple have unveiled an eye opening ‘Climate Clock’ providing a strong statement to the government. “The clock is a way to speak science to power,” project co-founder Andrew Boyd said in a statement. The clock takes the place of the famous ‘Metronome’ digital time display. Instead of showing the time, the Climate Clock predicts the time humans have left on the planet before an impending environmental disaster; currently at 7 years, 99 days and 23 hours. The Clock is a timer, counting down how long it will take at current rates of emissions to burn through our “carbon budget” — the amount of CO2 that can still be released into the atmosphere while limiting global warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels. This is our deadline, the time we have left to take decisive action to keep warming under the 1.5°C threshold. Simply put, energy from renewable sources must be used to lower the carbon count in the air and extend the time o...