Every other page on this site models possible futures from a fixed 2026 baseline. This page fetches the actual state of the world from public scientific APIs — live, in your browser — and puts it next to the model’s assumptions.
How This Works
Zero Backend
Your browser calls the sources directly — NOAA’s Global Monitoring Laboratory (via global-warming.org), Our World in Data’s grapher API, and the World Bank API. All are free, key-less, and CORS-open. Nothing passes through this site’s server.
Graceful Fallback
If a source is unreachable, its card shows the model’s static baseline instead and says so. The simulation never depends on the network — live values are an overlay, not a requirement. Results are cached in your browser for six hours.
Apples & Oranges
The model’s scores are composite 0–100 indices; live values are raw physical measurements. Where a direct comparison exists (CO₂ ppm, warming, renewable share, emissions, poverty) the card shows the drift between the model’s 2026 assumption and reality.
Sources
global-warming.org — community mirror of NOAA GML (CO₂, methane) and NSIDC (Arctic sea ice). Daily to monthly cadence.
Our World in Data — grapher CSV API. Temperature anomaly (vs 1861–1880), renewable electricity share (Ember), CO₂ emissions (Global Carbon Project). Annual.
World Bank Open Data — extreme poverty ($3.00/day, 2021 PPP) and ILO-modeled unemployment. Annual.
What’s not live — trust in institutions, AI alignment, governance capacity. No public real-time series exists; those remain modeled values.