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Data-viz 2026

Climate Consequence Map

2026 | Interactive map | Public understanding of science

A map that follows climate change from global physical forces down to daily life: food, housing, health, work.

The project is only navigable on desktop

Pick a driver in the left-hand column: the network opens out to the right, consequence by consequence, from the global to the everyday. Every node can be clicked and gives the figure, the year, the geographic scope and the source. The line tells you how solid the evidence is: solid where scientific agreement is broad, dashed where several independent studies point the same way, dotted where the finding is recent or stands alone. "List view" renders the same network as text, for screen readers and for anyone who prefers to read.

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Climate Consequence Map holds together two ends that usually stay apart: the physics of the climate and the Saturday shop. It begins with six drivers — air warming, the sea warming and acidifying, rainfall changing its rhythm, sea level rising — and follows them down the causal chain to where a person actually meets them: food prices, bills, health, housing, travel, work.

Three levels sit in between. Hazards, the events the drivers produce: heatwaves, wildfires, droughts, floods. The systems those hazards hit, from farming to energy. And the measurable economic and social effects, before they become personal experience.

Forty nodes, seventy-seven links, thirty-two sources. Every figure carries its value, unit, geographic scope, year and source; every link carries a one-sentence mechanism and a stated evidence grade. Fifty links rest on broad scientific agreement, twenty-five on several independent studies, two on recent and still isolated research. That distinction is shown rather than hidden: a map that presented hypotheses with the same confidence as established facts would be tidier and less honest.

The data comes from the WMO, Copernicus, NOAA, NASA, the FAO, the WHO, the ILO, the IEA, the European Commission, the ECB, Eurostat and peer-reviewed research. The map summarises published work: it is not a forecast for any particular place or year.