About
The IPCC's 2023 Synthesis Report indicates that global mean temperature has already increased by approximately 1.1°C, while the Paris Agreement sets the objective of limiting warming to well below 2°C. For us, these global numbers felt abstract, so this project asks a simple question: how do these changes translate at the local level?
We focus only on temperature change, over land and sea, to show how warming is already affecting people everywhere. It is now unequivocally established that this warming is caused by human activities. The numbers we have seen while working on this project are alarming and underscore the urgency for governments to take decisive action. This project does not cover the full range of downstream impacts such as wildfires, sea-level rise and coastal flooding, droughts and water stress, crop losses and food insecurity, biodiversity loss, health impacts, displacement and migration, and conflict risks.
The code for this website is available on github.com/climate-you/climate under the AGPL 3.0 license.
Authors
Benoit Leveau and Fanny Chaleon, two software engineers concerned about global warming and committed to making climate information more accessible.