1bn people will suffer extreme heat at just 2C heating, say scientists
by Damian Carrington Environment editor from on (#5RNXJ)
Climate crisis is driving up deadly combination of temperature and humidity, says study released at Cop26
A billion people will be affected by extreme heat stress if the climate crisis raises the global temperature by just 2C, according to research released by the UK Met Office at the Cop26 climate summit. The scientists said that would be a 15-fold increase on the numbers exposed today.
The key goal of Cop26 is to keep the chance of limiting global heating to 1.5C alive but delegates said there is much work to do to achieve this in the summit's final week.
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