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The climate, 1850 to today

2026

  1. We burn coal, oil and gas

    38,599million tonnes of carbon dioxide per year

    2.5 million estimated early deaths from breathing the smoke, 2022

  2. Carbon dioxide builds up in the air

    426.07parts per million

    298.6 parts per million was the highest in Antarctic ice before industry

  3. The world warms

    1.43degrees Celsius above 1850–1900

    25.8 heatwave days per person caused by the warming (modelled), 2024

  4. The hottest days get hotter

    1.30degrees Celsius above 1961–1990

    2.78 times as often at warming already passed: a once-a-decade hottest day

  5. Ice on land melts

    −9,583gigatonnes of glacier ice since 1976

    26.4 millimetres of the sea's rise came from melting glaciers by 2025

  6. The seas rise

    111.8millimetres above the 1993 average

    110 million people lived on land below high tide in 2010 (modelled)

  7. We can switch to clean power

    42.3percent of electricity generationprelim.

    610,189 estimated early deaths from coal power stations' smoke, 2022

Data: Global Carbon Project (Robbie M. Andrew and Glen P. Peters, CICERO) · Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change (led by University College London) · CSIRO (with the Australian Antarctic Division and ANSTO) · NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory · NOAA NCEI World Data Service for Paleoclimatology (data by Bereiter et al., University of Bern and partners) · Met Office Hadley Centre and University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit · Indicators of Global Climate Change (IGCC) consortium, led by the University of Leeds · IPCC Working Group I Technical Support Unit; archived by the NERC EDS Centre for Environmental Data Analysis · World Glacier Monitoring Service (WGMS), University of Zurich · IMBIE Team (led from Northumbria University); archived by the NERC EDS UK Polar Data Centre · CNES / AVISO+ (produced with CLS and LEGOS) · Scott A. Kulp and Benjamin H. Strauss (Climate Central); published in Nature Communications (Springer Nature) · Ember. Stripes after Ed Hawkins (showyourstripes.info, CC BY 4.0).