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NYC ‘Climate Clock’ Highlights Decades Of Premature Global Warming Doomsdays

by Daniel Payne
September 23, 2020, 8:34 AM
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new york climate clockIn honor of “Climate Week,” New York City is playing host to a massive “Climate Clock” purporting to count down the years, days, and minutes until the world reaches a climate catastrophe point-of-no-return.

The oversized digital display, on view through Sept. 27, underscores a long history of climate doomsayers prematurely warning that a global climate tipping point is just a few short years away.

The digital clockface itself has been a fixture of New York City’s Union Square for over 20 years.

A landmark that has confused many tourists to the city, the clock’s display normally denotes, in one long, unbroken string of digits, the current time of day (in military time) as well as the remaining number of hours and minutes left in the day itself.

Over the weekend, the clock instead began a straightforward countdown, one ticking off seven years and several dozen days, after which — according to the project’s creators, artists Gan Golan and Andrew Boyd — the Earth will have used up its “carbon budget” and will careen toward irreversible climate catastrophe.

The artists said the countdown was based on the calculations put forth by the Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, one that purports to measure the amount of time humanity has to reduce its carbon output to stay below the 1.5° Celsius warming threshold.

The clock “shows how little time is left for political decision-makers to take action,” the MRI says on its website.

Several decades of constantly shifting climate countdowns

The “Climate Clock” generated headlines across the world for its novelty and striking presentation of what activists claim is a final deadline before global temperatures reach a point from which there is no turning back.

Yet such prophecies are nothing new from climate scientists and activists, who have repeatedly warned the world over recent decades that it was very near the point of no return regarding carbon emissions.

Among the earliest such warnings was one from Noel Brown, who in 1989 led the U.N. Environment Program in New York.

In that year, Brown warned that “entire nations could be wiped off the face of the Earth by rising sea levels if the global warming trend is not reversed by the year 2000,” as a contemporary Associated Press report put it.

Brown said that scientists at that time were warning that there was “nothing” the world could do at that point to reverse a three-degree rise in temperatures.

“Anything beyond that,” he told the news service, “and we have to start thinking about the significant rise of the sea levels … we can expect more ferocious storms, hurricanes, wind shear, dust erosion.”

Many scientists have since extended the deadline for climate change redemption by years and even decades beyond Brown’s 2000 cutoff.

In 2006, for example, Columbia climate science professor James Hansen predicted that the planet had just 10 years to avoid major catastrophes.

“I think we have a very brief window of opportunity to deal with climate change,” he told the Climate Change Research Conference that year, stating that the planet had “no longer than a decade, at the most” to reverse catastrophic warming across the globe.

In 2008, Al Gore said in a speech that “leading experts predict that we have less than 10 years to make dramatic changes in our global warming pollution lest we lose our ability to ever recover from this environmental crisis.”

That same year, Australian scientist Tim Flannery argued that a United Nations climate summit in Poland that year was “likely to be our last chance as a species to deal with the problem.”

The following year, in 2009, then-United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned at the U.N. Climate Change Summit Plenary that the world would soon reach “critical thresholds,” incurring “consequences that we cannot reverse.”

“The world’s leading scientists warn that we have less than 10 years to avoid the worst-case scenarios projected by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change,” he said at the time.

That same year, the U.K.’s Prince Charles argued that the world had just eight years to avoid “irretrievable climate and ecosystem collapse, and all that goes with it.”

In 2018, meanwhile, current U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres extended Ki-moon’s earlier cut-off by another year, warning in a speech that the U.S. had until 2020 to change course, after which “we risk missing the point where we can avoid runaway climate change.”

More recently, climate activists have pushed the deadline out significantly further than earlier predictions, well past those of Ki-moon and Guterres.

New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, for instance, famously suggested last year that “the world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.”

Also last year, Swedish environmentalist activist Greta Thunberg claimed that the world had 11 years to enact “permanent and unprecedented changes in all aspects of society” or else humanity would witness “the end of our civilization as we know it.”

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Comments 6

  1. Shoki Kaneda says:
    5 years ago

    I’m tired of ignoramuses denigrating the precious, life-giving, beneficial, trace gas CO2. My Suburbans have contributed many thousand tons to the atmosphere and I hope to contribute many thousand tons more. People are eating better because of our efforts, bringing Earth back from the brink of CO2 starvation.

  2. Chaamjamal says:
    5 years ago

    The eternal “Antarctica melting sea level rise” doomology still alive and well and kicking.

    https://tambonthongchai.com/2020/09/24/a-failed-polar-ice-melt-obsession/

  3. Spurwing Plover says:
    5 years ago

    Just as rediculous and stupid as the Doomsday Clock and the Nit-Wits who are always screwing around with the hands

  4. Andrew Dickens says:
    5 years ago

    I’m reminded of the 1960s film The Manchurian Candidate, in which a McCarthy-like senator makes speeches stating that there are communists in the State Department. He keeps changing the number of communists, and an aide suggests that the Senator would be more credible if he decided on one number and stuck to it. The Senator looks round the dining table, and his eyes light on a bottle of Heinz 57 varieties sauce. We then see him making a speech, “There are 57 communists in the state department!”.
    I think that the people responsible for the New York clock stunt must have been drinking 7-up.

  5. Barry Bateman says:
    5 years ago

    NYC really needs to get out more. Is lying to the public legal in NYC? Is indoctrinating and frightening school children not a crime? 1st: It’s not carbon – it’s CO2. It’s the basic ingredient of life on earth. Without CO2 all life dies. More is ALWAYS BETTER. 2nd: CO2 has been naturally declining from 7000ppm for 600 million years – to our current near lethally low levels. At no time in that 600 million years, even at CO2 levels nearly twenty times that of today, has there ever been a “runaway greenhouse effect”. Never has there been life damaging ocean acidification. And climate safety has improved from 500 thousand weather related deaths per year, one hundred years ago, to fifty-six thousand today. A little more CO2 has been a very good thing for life on earth. A little more CO2 has greened the environment by as much as 30%. A little more CO2 is shrinking deserts. And a little more CO2 has brought a string of world record crop yields. 3rd: Fossil fuels, coal, oil, and gas, remain 85% of the world’s energy. Despite billions and billions of dollars poured into the unreliables – wind and solar. (still less than 1%) Coal, oil, and gas have made us the best fed, longest-living, most prosperous human beings that have ever lived. 4th: The climate models that the UN-IPCC depends on entirely for their fake climate fundraising efforts? They exaggerate warming vs actual temps by as much as 500%. It’s a complete fraud. But because television and politicians know next to nothing about science, because today’s schoolchildren are being indoctrinated and scared to death about climate, and because the UN-IPCC continues to imagine that their failed multibillion-dollar models mean ANYTHING significant, energy poverty will continue to climb. Communist China is loving it. If you can’t compete, tear them down. 5th: All that this irrational, unfounded fear, from climate hysterics has done is drive up the cost of energy, for no good reason. To the point where Europe alone now kills more people through fear-driven energy poverty than the weather kills in the entire world. This climate fraud is killing more people than the climate ever will.

    • Chaamjamal says:
      5 years ago

      really great comment by barry bateman. I saved it.

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