New York City’s Giant Clock Now Tells How Much Time Earth Might Have Left
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In the bustling streets of New York City, a giant numeral digital clock dubbed as ‘Metronome’ is embedded at the side of a skyscraper near Union Square. The clock usually tells the time of the day and resets at midnight. However, it is now representing a different time to a calamitous future.
Artists Andrew Boyd and Gan Golan reprogrammed the clock from the start of Climate Week in New York City to run till 27 September 2020. The Metronome now indicates the years, days, hours, minutes, and seconds the world has to reduce carbon emissions before Earth reaches a destructive point.
The “deadline” was set based on calculations from the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change. So far, researchers have learned that 1.5 degrees of global warming from global averages will leave desolating effects on the climate with rises in sea levels, storms, droughts, and more.
Based on the estimations, 1.5 degrees of warming will befall in about seven and a half years, and that’s the countdown set on the Union Square Climate Clock right now.
The Climate Clock is an open project, which means anyone can create their own version to raise awareness of climate change.
New York City just turned the giant Union Square clock into a Climate Clock. New York City just turned the giant Union Square clock into a Climate Clock to hold governments and corporations accountable. We have 7 years and 102 days to dramatically reduc... https://t.co/yjl43NHOPX
— We Climate Love (@ClimateLove0) September 20, 2020
[via Mashable, cover image via Luciano Mortula - LGM / Shutterstock.com]
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