The Climate Clock Is Ticking

Colossal Climate Clock in New York City counts down to global deadline

Jeff Berardelli, September 22, 2020 (CBS News)

“…[The digital display in New York’s Union Square shows] a deadline of sorts: the years, days, hours, minutes and seconds left to curb greenhouse gas emissions enough to give the Earth a two-thirds chance of staying below 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, as compared to pre-industrial times…[If that is exceeded,] scientists say the impacts will become increasingly more disastrous…[The Climate Clock shows] a little over seven years to meet this very ambitious, and some would say unattainable, goal…

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Another slightly less aggressive benchmark from the U.N.'s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says that human-caused greenhouse gas emissions must be reduced 45% from 2010 levels by 2030 — nine years away — to give the Earth a 50% chance of not exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming…[The clock’s makers] hope that this clock serves as a constant reminder to passersby of the short timeline and ambitious action required to stave off the worst effects of climate change…” click here for more

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