Thread by @BuzzFeedNews

World leaders are at #COP26 to avert a climate catastrophe. But you can't fix something if you don't know how broken it is.

So here's the climate crisis, by the numbers 🧵
buzzfeednews.com/article/petera…

1.2° to 1.3° C (2.2° to 2.3° F): the rise in global average temps since the late-1800s.

Not everywhere is heating up at the same rate: The Arctic is warming three times faster.

3.6 millimeters a year: the rise in the global average sea level since 2006.

If we don’t limit warming, sea level rise is expected to accelerate as more and more ice melts from Antarctica’s massive ice sheets

>410 parts per million: current carbon dioxide levels, which are largely driving the warming and sea level rise.

Deniers of human-caused climate change sometimes argue that those levels naturally vary widely to say humanity is not to blame. They are wrong.

It's not too late to turn things around — but we are running out of time.