Climate and Human Welfare

This page tracks measures of human well-being alongside the climate records they are often linked with: food production, deaths from natural disasters, temperature, drought and greenhouse gases. All charts are drawn automatically from the published data and update on their own.

Food Production

World Cereal Yield – Tonnes per Hectare

World cereal yield per hectare — World average cereal yield, tonnes per hectare. Source: Our World in Data

Natural Disasters

Deaths from Natural Disasters Worldwide

Climate Context

Global Land and Ocean Temperature Anomaly – NOAA

NOAA global land and ocean temperature anomaly — NOAA global land and ocean monthly temperature departure from the 1901–2000 average. Source: NOAA NCEI Climate at a Glance

Contiguous US – Palmer Drought Severity Index

Mauna Loa Monthly Mean CO2

Mauna Loa monthly CO2 — Monthly mean atmospheric CO2 at Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii, ppm. Source: NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory

NOAA Annual Greenhouse Gas Index

Source Guide:

Our World in Data
Crop Yields | Natural Disasters

NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI)
Climate at a Glance

NOAA Global Monitoring Laboratory (GML)
Trends in Atmospheric CO2 | Annual Greenhouse Gas Index

See also the WUWT Extreme Weather Page, Global Temperature Page and CO2 Page.

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Edward Katz

November 12, 2026 4:47 pm

These figures have been noted and publicized by numerous sources, except they’re exactly the type of facts that are consistently downplayed, suppressed or omitted by the mainstream media. To give them air, print or broadcast time would quickly undermine the climate crisis song&dance that the same media gets paid by governments and eco-organizations to blow out of proportion. But just let some storm, flood, heat wave, or drought occur and those same alarmists would be telling us that they’re irrefutable proof of man-made climate change driven, of course, by fossil fuel use. .

Ron Long

November 12, 2026 5:09 pm

Great charts, but where’s the chart for feelings, because, you know, feelings are important too.

Andrew St John

Reply to Ron Long

November 12, 2026 5:27 pm

Modern debate in Australia politics about climate change is simple.

Your express your negative feelings about a mythical apocalypse.
And then expect validation of these feelings.

Objective reality and hard data?

They are Hurty words and graphs that upset my feelings!

Harold Pierce

November 12, 2026 5:39 pm

At the Mauna Loa Obs. in Hawaii, the concentration of CO2 in dry air is currently 426.1 ppm. One cubic meter of this air has a mass of 1,290 grams and contains a mere 0.84 grams of CO2 at STP. This small amount of CO2 in air cannot absorb enough out-going long wavelength IR light to heat up such a large mass of air or have any effect on weather and climate. Thus, the claims since 1988 by the corrupt IPCC and unscrupulous collaborating scientists that CO2 causes global warming and is the control knob of climate change are fabrications and lies.

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