Unfortunately for us, there’s a shock on the way if climate change continues unchecked. We’re already seeing the toll rising heat is taking on people around the world, from heat wave-related deaths to billions of hours in lost productivity because it was simply too hot to be outside. Still, humans have made it work in many hot places, from Phoenix to New Delhi to Dubai. But eventually, climate change could overwhelm us.
对我们来说不幸的是,如果气候变化继续不受控制,我们就会面临冲击。我们已经看到了不断上升的高温对世界各地的人们造成的影响,从热浪导致的死亡,到因天气太热而无法外出导致的数十亿小时的生产力损失。尽管如此,从凤凰城到新德里再到迪拜,人类已经在许多炎热的地方想办法克服高温。但最终,气候变化会压倒我们。
The study uses RCP8.5, a scenario where carbon emissions rise on an extreme level, to model what the end of the century would look like for our little human climate niche. The results show it would contract substantially. The Sahara is one of the only places on Earth where the annual average temperature cranks above 29 degrees Celsius (84 degrees Fahrenheit) and where the human climate niche basically ends. The areas with that much heat only cover 0.8 percent of the world’s land. But by 2070, that type of heat would become commonplace over nearly 20 percent of land on Earth. That area is home to up to 3 billion people who, if they don’t migrate, will be living in conditions humans have never been able to tolerate for year-round existence.
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