See what three degrees of global warming looks like

If global temperatures rise three degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the results would be catastrophic. It’s an entirely plausible scenario, and this film shows you what it would look like.

00:00 – What will a 3°C world look like?
00:57 – Climate change is already having devastating effects
02:58 – How climate modelling works
04:06 – Nowhere is safe from global warming
05:20 – The impact of prolonged droughts
08:24 – Rising sea levels, storm surges and flooding
10:27 – Extreme heat and wet-bulb temperatures
12:51 – Increased migration and conflict
14:26 – Adaptation and mitigation are crucial

Read our briefing about a three degree world: https://econ.st/3nJiXYS

View all of The Economist’s climate change coverage: https://econ.st/3b1RwU2

Sign up to our climate change newsletter: https://econ.st/3b1dtCQ

Listen to our new climate podcast, “To a Lesser Degree”: https://econ.st/3b1RuLU

Read our special report on stabilising the climate: https://econ.st/3nw6CXK

Listen to an episode of “The Intelligence” podcast about a 3°C world: https://econ.st/2Zw3Utv

What would different levels of global warming look like? https://econ.st/2ZBsZDb

How climate modelling works: https://econ.st/3jNmlAN

Read about the IPCC’s starkest warning yet about climate change: https://econ.st/3nxagk6

What to look out for at COP26: https://econ.st/2ZHngeZ

Why the COP26 climate summit will be both crucial and disappointing: https://econ.st/3Gvvibz

Broken promises, energy shortages and covid-19 will hamper COP26: https://econ.st/3EnDBnU

Why damage from climate change will be widespread and sometimes surprising: https://econ.st/3Et40kq

Children born today are likely to face seven times more extreme weather events than their grandparents: https://econ.st/3GyuXEO

How to prepare for rising sea levels: https://econ.st/3EmtO1t

Podcast: The growing risk of deadly heatwaves: https://econ.st/3nFWFH8

The danger posed by heatwaves needs to be taken more seriously: https://econ.st/3k7SbZd

What if firms were forced to pay for frying the planet: https://econ.st/3nGpseT

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30 COMMENTS

  1. Hi climate researcher and scientist here. Just wanted to tell that we won't survive 3 degrees of warming. People will fall to the geound like flies. Its that dangerous. Even if you literally throw yourself into a freezer, theres no chance.

  2. Take care of yourselves, you have lost a person of great light to change something in this world that is so bad, a person who does not respect others or respect the climate or the environment has taken the presidency, I have a book that is going to come out soon in Spain in Spanish(for now) talking about a truth that many need to know.

  3. When I was growing up in Ohio back in the 1950's and 60's I remember having snow on the ground on Halloween. We have recently been hearing from family that temperatures have been in the 60~80° range for some time.(11/5/24)

  4. Best advice is to ask the opinion of the Dinosaurs. Global warming was upon the earth millions of years before the human animal arrived. There was no word called Global Warming or even any language to write or speak of Global warming.
    Yet there was Global warming.

    So the Dinosaurs are the ones to ask.
    They know.

  5. I remember the fear caused in 1970 when projected population growth was going to double the population on the same resources. They were wrong; the population tripled, but farmers figured out how to feed them.
    We are at a solar maximum. Shouldn't we take steps to avoid the next ice age? Which way is the right way? We have no idea.

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  7. This is the perfect muslc ambient for documentaries and historical narratives that is ideal for portraying empires , current history of modern day countries and dictators like napoleon, and events like the absolutism era

  8. What causes global warming? The release of greenhouse gases caused by the use of fossil fuels right? Partially correct. There are two other factors: 1) the loss of living biomass — or the conversion of resources that would otherwise support them into non-living things. What's the connection? If Carbon can't accumulate in the standing stock of living biomass, then it must accumulate somewhere, and it does! In our atmosphere and in our oceans! Thus global warming and loss of ecological biomass are one and the same problem. 2) the rate of greenhouse gas emissions. Natural systems can't keep up. Solution: Simultaneously reduce the rate of greenhouse gas emissions, embark on a massive adaptive ecological restoration focusing on the establishment of food forests capable of sustaining BOTH human AND ecological organisms. Place as much non-residential structures and infrastructure as possible underground or in space, reserving the surface of the Earth for living things. Create an ecologically literate population that recognizes that human survival, health and well-being is totally dependent upon the survival, health and well-being of or internal and external ecosystem, redefine wealth as the same, build an ecologically based and constrained economy using ecologically based and ecologically constrained technology. Act as the keystone species and build up the capacity of the ecosystem to sustain human life, using the excess productive capacity to grow the human economy. That's our only viable way forward. Let's get started!

  9. The problem is actually believing that a top down solution will be forthcoming. It will not… it never does. So, only a bottom up solution is viable. How? Start with yourself. Place ALL of your critical subsistence life-support system requirements under your own ownership and control — many of which are rooted in the survival, health and well-being of the ecosystem. Partner eith others in mutualistic networks until colectively, you are self-sufficient and self-sustaining. By subsistence, I mean all those support systems that you require to live and retain your health and well-being NOT an accumultion of material wealth. Expand the network, considering the subsistence needs of the group as a whole. Repeat at progressively higher levels of aggregation up to and including the world as a whole.

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