8 minutes agoStudy: 1 billion people will live in unbearable heat within 50 years
Periskopi(6 years ago)
(6 years ago)The human cost of the climate crisis will hit harder, more broadly and faster than previously thought, according to a study showing that one billion people will either be forced to move or suffer unbearable heat for any global temperature increase. In the most [...] scenario
In the worst possible scenario, areas where one-third of the world's population lives will become as hot as the hottest parts of the Sahara Desert within 50 years, reports The Guardian, the Periscope.
Even in the most optimistic scenario, 1.2 billion people will not live comfortable in areas where people had flourished for at least 6 thousand years.
The study authors said they were shocked by these findings because they had not expected our species to be so vulnerable.
The numbers leave you speechless. I literally started to check twice when I saw them,” said Tim Lenton from Exeter University.
The article does not see the problem of climate change as a problem of physics and economics but examines the way it affects human habitat.
Most people have always lived in regions where average annual temperatures range from 11 degrees Celsius to 25. But that won't be possible anymore. /Periscope
