Manhattan’s inscrutable Metronome digital clock — which for decades has confounded Union Square passersby uncertain of what it’s actually measuring — now tracks the amount of time until scientists believe the effects of climate change will become irreversible.
The conversion was announced at 3:20 p.m. Saturday when the towering LED display flashed the ominous message “The Earth has a deadline” then began counting down from 7:103:15:40:07 — the years, days, hours, minutes and seconds to go, according to The New York Times.
That point of no return is based on calculations by the Berlin-based Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change, according to Gan Golan and Andrew Boyd, the artists behind what they’ve dubbed the Climate Clock.
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