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A climate demonstration, without participants due to the crown pandemic, in Berlin, Germany, on April 24.
According to a study published in the PNAS magazine, almost a third of the world population may be forced to flee within 50 years due to extreme heat if global warming continues as it does today.
According to the worst-case scenario of the researchers, in terms of population growth rate and warming, more than three billion people can live in areas with extreme heat in 2070. However, if emissions decrease and the warming decreases, the number of people affected could reach approximately a billion at the same time, according to study.
– For every degree that the Earth’s average temperature rises, another 1 billion people are at risk of being forced into extremely hot weather, one of the authors, Professor Marten Scheffer of Wageningen University, tells Radio Swedish.
If global warming continues at the same rate as today, extreme heat could hit several of the world’s most densely populated areas in Africa, Asia, and South America.
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