Global heating will push billions outside 'human climate niche'

[Uncle Joe]

Global heating will drive billions of people out of the “climate niche” in which humanity has flourished for millennia, a study has estimated, exposing them to unprecedented temperatures and extreme weather.

The world is on track for 2.7C of heating with current action plans and this would mean 2 billion people experiencing average annual temperatures above 29C by 2030, a level at which very few communities have lived in the past.

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Prof Tim Lenton at the University of Exeter, UK, who led the new research, said: “The costs of global warming are often expressed in financial terms but our study highlights the phenomenal human cost of failing to tackle the climate emergency.

“Economic estimates almost always value the rich more than the poor, because they have more assets to lose, and they tend to value those alive now over those living in the future. We’re considering all people as equal in this study.”

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https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/may/22/global-heating-human-climate-niche

[Otto_Harper]

1. If I think like a privileged ReThug for just a moment

I might say something like "Can't they just move somewhere cooler, or, at least, turn on the air conditioner?"

(/Snark)

[Chainfire]

2. There will be wars and rumors of wars...

[anciano]

3. This little marble in the universe that we call home

is the only home we have. There is no other place to go. Environmental stewardship is essential to our survival as a species. Sadly, whether or not we will collectively acknowledge and embrace that reality is yet to be determined.