This bot is deployed at: twitter.com/ClimateClockBot and botsin.space/@ClimateClockBot
A bot that tweets daily updates about worldwide CO₂ emissions relative to the 1.5°C carbon budget outlined by the IPCC.
A breakdown of the creative intent of this bot is posted on my blog.
The model and data for this bot are provided by the Climate Clock project’s API.
Their countdown time is based on two pieces of data provided by the IPCC. As of 2020, the world has a remaining budget of 400 gigatonnes of CO₂ for a 66% probability of remaining under +1.5˚C global average temperature. This budget is being depleted by emissions at a rate of 42 ± 3 gigatonnes of CO₂ per year. Putting these two together, scientists predict that the world will overshoot this limit around the middle of 2029.
The renewable energy percentage is based on the “Our World In Data” open source database. According to their model, renewable energy provided 11.41% of global energy consumption in 2019. The annual growth is assumed to be 5.655%, which is the average growth rate in renewable energy share from 2016-2019. This rate is continuously updated with new yearly data in the Climate Clock API.