From Watts Up With That?

Essay by Eric Worrall

Doomsday visited the clock before the 2030 deadline.

Victoria’s $18,000 Climate Change Doomsday Clock Vandalised

A controversial $18,000 countdown clock said to mark the beginning of the end has been heavily graffitied.

By Crystal-Rose Jones
2/23/2025Updated: 2/23/2025

A newly erected art installation in the Melbourne suburb of Fitzroy has been heavily vandalised with graffiti.

The much-discussed artwork, titled Zone Red, is the creation of Melbourne artist and climate change campaigner Yandell Walton, and was first unveiled in November 2024.

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Yarra City Council and Victorian Police were contacted for comment.Read more: https://www.theepochtimes.com/world/victorias-18000-climate-change-doomsday-clock-vandalised-5815118

WUWT reported on the clock a few days ago.

$18000 Climate Doomsday Clock Unveiled in Melbourne

WUWT does not condone lawbreaking and vandalism. Having said that, I doubt this graffiti attack had anything to do with our article, vandalism and graffiti are rampant in today’s inner city Melbourne. There was a murder in Fitzroy Gardens, the site of the statue, in 2023. Reasonably safe in daylight, but not the kind of place I would be comfortable visiting after dark.

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Correction (EW): h/t Nick Stokes – the statue is in Fitzroy’s Edinburgh Gardens, not Fitzroy Gardens.