Track global warming with our live counters

Sky News is tracking how our world is being affected by climate change in real-time.

The counters below use data from leading climate change scientists as well as the National Grid.

You can see how the world is being affected in real-time: from how much temperatures have risen since the industrial revolution and how the UK's electricity is being generated, to how much carbon dioxide has been emitted.

How much temperatures have risen since 1880

This increasing number is the clearest measure of how the world has changed since the industrial revolution in the 19th Century.

The rising temperature since then shows how much global warming is created by humans.

Scientists at the University of Oxford's Environmental Change Institute looked at CO2 emissions since then as well as warming caused by other human activities.

They have created an equation to figure out how much the global average temperature has risen due to those factors.

Total CO2 emissions

Carbon dioxide emissions are the largest contributor to human-induced climate change.

This counter shows how many million tonnes of CO2 have been released into the atmosphere since the industrial revolution began.

Scientists at the Universities of Oxford and Leeds created the real-time counter using data from sources such as the Met Office and the IPCC (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change).

Real-time electricity sources

There are many actions humans need to take to help reduce global warming but one of the major things is to stop using energy sources that release carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.

This real-time counter uses data supplied by the National Grid that shows how much of Great Britain's electricity is being produced by different sources.

Higher use of renewable energy such as solar, wind and hydroelectric power will mean lower carbon emissions.

Biomass energy - the burning of natural materials such as animal dung, corn crops and wood chips - is currently classed as a renewable energy source in the UK but many scientists argue it should not be as it releases CO2 and carbon monoxide.

Fossil fuels such as gas and coal are the largest energy source emitters of CO2 while nuclear does not emit carbon - but is controversial.

Imports are energy sources the UK imports from countries such as France (mainly nuclear), the Netherlands (mainly coal) and Ireland (mainly wind).