Climate Clock ticks down: Five years left to limit temperature rise to 1.5C

The so-called “Climate Clock” looming over New York’s Union Square passed a critical milestone on Saturday.

The time left to limit global temperature rise to 1.5C - the ambitious goal of the 2015 Paris Agreement - dropped from six years to five. Beyond 1.5C, scientists say that the impacts of the climate crisis will become even more severe and further destabilize the planet further.

“The five year mark is not the end, it is a reminder that we still have a window of hope to prevent the worst impacts of climate change,” the Climate Clock team announced at midday on Saturday.

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[Nickle]

But Greta said in her Tweet the world ends this year? I've already organised my end of the world party.
Now you are saying I've wasted my money.

[thebigeazye]

Don't you mean 5 years left to take over energy and food, and begin depopulation?

[reallymakesyouthink]

Can they hurry up and release the second series of House of Dragons before the world ends

[Ji_hadJoe]

This clock is more cataclysmic than the Doomsday Clock...

[liambowbrick]

So the news story is. A clock did what clocks do and showed the passage of time

[DarkThagan]

Another doomsday clock. We didn't have enough of those im my life time. This one is sure to change everything by wasting more electricity for nothing. I bet someone earned a lot of money for this project.

[ssuwandi]

The end of fossil oil / Petro dollar in 5 years. Thanks Buck Fiden

[linaugnenco]

now it's dropped from 5 to 4 years

[olllythirdkind]

Theyve saved money for this stuff if you look it up its in the trillions ya this stuff messed me up for like two years til people actually started looking in on it

[DangerAmbrose]

But the goal post is constantly moving. 1.5 degrees from when?

[georgedelcid]

So does the clock end when the asteroid apophis approaches earth on april 13, 2029? That’s five years from now

[Rinrinwhoa]

Wait what happen if it runs out of time?

[richyp]

This explains why so many people are "suddenly and unexpectedly" dropping like flies. Climate change is terrifying.

[lierbrera]

they keep saying only five years left they are the once that are acting slow ajajajajajajajaj. there agenda is pointless they will never do anything

[TR]

5 million tons of coal pollution were released into the atmosphere to generate the electricity needed to power this clock. Stunning and brave.

[mpzcore]

Today we have 4 years left before global warming is irreversible

[tiboregoldberger]

The Little Ice Age was one of the coldest periods of the past 10, 000 years, a period of cooling that was particularly pronounced in the North Atlantic region. This cold spell, whose precise timeline scholars debate, but which seems to have set in around 600 years ago, was responsible for crop failures, famines and pandemics throughout Europe, resulting in misery and death for millions. To date, the mechanisms that led to this harsh climate state