Core evidence
Sea level, rainfall, disaster loss, affected persons, and crop yield form the core evidence chain.
Evidence and method
How the pressure chain is built
The method separates official climate and disaster evidence from supporting cost-of-living and real-life context. It treats the story as a pressure-chain interpretation, not a single-variable causation model.
Supporting context
CPI/inflation frames household pressure only. It is not treated as proof of direct causation.
Country comparison
Rankings use available reported totals and should not be read as a complete vulnerability measure.
Interpretation guardrail
The story shows connected pressure, not a single-variable attribution model.
Evidence principles
How to read this story
The visualisation combines official indicators with supporting context while keeping the limits of the evidence visible.
Official indicators
Sea level, rainfall, crop yield, direct disaster loss, and people directly affected form the core evidence base.
Supporting cost context
CPI and inflation provide household-cost context and are not presented as proof of direct climate-to-price causation.
Available records
Country comparisons use the records available in each dataset. Missing values do not mean that a country has no exposure.
Connected pressure
The story describes a plausible pressure chain across systems, not a single-variable attribution model.
AI usage statement
AI-supported implementation and refinement.
AI assistance was used for coding support, wording refinement, layout iteration, troubleshooting, and the creation of illustrative scene images. The illustrations are not presented as documentary photographs. Dataset selection, analysis, story framing, interpretation limits, design decisions, and validation remained human-directed.