One billion people will live in insufferable heat within 50 years – study

The human cost of the climate crisis will hit harder, wider and sooner than previously believed, according to a study that shows a billion people will either be displaced or forced to endure insufferable heat for every additional 1C rise in the global temperature.

In a worst-case scenario of accelerating emissions, areas currently home to a third of the world’s population will be as hot as the hottest parts of the Sahara within 50 years, the paper warns. Even in the most optimistic outlook, 1.2 billion people will fall outside the comfortable “climate niche” in which humans have thrived for at least 6,000 years.

The authors of the study said they were “floored” and “blown away” by the findings because they had not expected our species to be so vulnerable.

“The numbers are flabbergasting. I literally did a double take when I first saw them, ” Tim Lenton, of Exeter University, said. “I’ve previously studied climate tipping points, which are usually considered apocalyptic. But this hit home harder. This puts the threat in very human terms.”

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We need to address global warming as the larger crisis

Well FO. He’s trying to say that he’s behaving impartially, following impartial advice beyond question [ed: reproach). Well feck you, scientists are not impartial. The Zombie has recruited the scientists that will support his ideological position.

Herd immunity never had any widespread scientific support. The Zombie has recruited political scientists of his same persuasion to support his and his insane advisor’s prejudices. They decided to go for herd immunity and found scientists to support that position. Herd immunity assumes that there is an antibody response which protects against further infections. That is a ridiculous unproved assumption. Zombie Boris cannot claim that it [is] a response guided by scientific knowledge.

Hopefully coming soon, an article about UK facing many crises. While Coronavirus is the immediate crisis, the bigger crisis is Climate Change. While UK faces these two crises, UK government is intent on a no-deal Brexit from Europe.

Climate change should be addressed as part of the response to the current Coronavirus crisis. We should not return to business as usual …

Jeremy Corbyn – if you are able to – please consider standing for election as leader of the Labour Party.

I can’t help reflecting on how you and your team would have handled this crisis so much better.

ed: the Labour Party is properly a Socialist Party

… a party of Socialists