How much hotter the world got in 2024 than before we started burning fossil fuels at scale. That single year was the hottest ever recorded.
Of all the CO2 ever released since 1850 came from one country, the United States. No other country comes close.
Source: Our World in Data
People killed by heat every year. That number has risen 23 percent since the 1990s, and keeps climbing.
Source: WHO and Lancet Countdown
Countries hit hardest by climate disasters are low income nations, the same ones that contributed the least to causing this.
Source: Germanwatch Climate Risk Index
What the world has actually pledged to pay for climate damage, against $395 billion owed every single year. The gap is the whole story.
Source: UNFCCC
The data changes every year. The people it happens to rarely get to choose that.