How Climate Change Will Devastate The Entire World In One Map

The UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change just released the second of it's three-part report on climate change. The entire report can be found on the IPCC website.

It contains a damning map that shows exactly how much of an impact climate change will have all around the world on things like fresh water, our crops, and even the ecosystems around us.

Each continent has a box showing how much of an impact climate change is going to have on three types of systems:

1. Blue for physical systems - like glaciers, coastal erosion, and availability of water resources.

2. Green is for biological systems - the forests and reefs around us.

3. Red is for human system - our crops and livelihoods.

The stack of squares next to the colored icons indicates how much of these impacts is caused by the climate, from zero to five bars. When part of the bars are lighter in color, that means there's some doubt to how high that cause is.

You can also tell how much climate is impacting the situation based on if the icons are filled in or outlined. Those outlined icons means climate change is only a minor contributor to the impact.

The icons are shown on specific areas of the map as well, to show what exact parts of the continent are going to be impacted.