NYC Clock Now Tells the Time Remaining for

Climate Change 'Deadline'

This is how much time we have left to limit carbon emissions before a critical
tipping point is reached.
New York City is home to a 62-foot-wide electronic clock with a 15-digit display
facing Manhattan's Union Square.
This clock is a public art project named Metronome and it counts the hours,
minutes, and seconds to and from midnight.
However, as we near the quite possibly the most important deadline of human
history, the clock has gotten an update: It now displays the remaining years, days,
hours, minutes, and seconds before the climate change deadline.
The public art installation commissioned by real estate firm Related
Companies started displaying messages such as "The Earth has a deadline" at
around 3:20 PM on Saturday.
Following the statements, the numbers started to changed and eventually displayed
the time remaining for the carbon emission deadline: Seven years, 105 days, and
22 hours, as of the time the change occurred, according to the estimates.

Here is what the carbon emission deadline means: We are on a budget

regarding carbon, meaning we can only go so far with greenhouse gas emissions
and still have a 67% chance of keeping the world under 2.7°F (1.5°C) of
warming.

Once we burn enough carbon, this will warm Earth enough to cause even
more climate-related risks to human health, livelihoods, food security, water
supply, and economic growth.

These estimates were made by a team from the Mercator Research Institute of
Global Commons and Climate Change (MCC), which is a Germany-based institute
that is primarily concerned with protecting the atmosphere and oceans while
conducting studies on global warming.
Since keeping global warming under 2.7°F (1.5°C) could mean that we can avoid
the worst of climate change, this clock comes as an alarming reminder that we
cannot ignore indeed.
25 Things That Will Happen In The
Next 60 Seconds
1. There will be 5 earthquakes
2. Lightning will strike the Earth 360 times
3. 250 babies will be born
4. 113 of them will be born into poverty
5. 15 will have birth defects
6. 55,000 barrels of oil will be used
7. The sun will fling 60 million tons of matter into space
8. 31,600 tons of water will flow over the Niagara Falls
9. 960 million tons of water will evaporate from the surface of the Earth
10. A hummingbird will flap its wings 4,000 times
11. 6 million chemical reactions will take place inside of every single cell in
your body
12. You will blink an average of 12 times
13. A sloth will cover an average of 13 feet
14. The bed bugs you snuggle with at night will crawl roughly 48 inches closer
15. Nike will make $36,000
16. Meanwhile, a Nike factory worker in Vietnam will make 1/10 of a penny
17. Bill Gates will make $15,000
18. The average citizen of Earth will be 1 penny richer
19. 2,040 trees will be cut down in the rainforest
20. The US national debt will increase by over $3 million
21. 3 violent crimes will happen in the United States
22. 1,800 stars will explode
23. 107 people will die
24. 4,500 McDonalds burgers will be eaten
25. 18 of the deaths will be from starvation