Global warming should affect many more people in the future (archives).
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The current young generations will undergo much more extreme climate events than their elders. This is shown by an international study with Swiss participation published Wednesday in the journal Nature.
People born in 2020 are more likely to experience extreme heat waves than older people, according to this research led by Luke Grant, from the Vrije Universite de Brussels.
Even if global warming could be maintained at 1.5 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial level, around 52% of children aged five years will be exposed to unprecedented heat waves during their lifetime.
In Switzerland, with global warming of 1.5 degrees, 37% of people born in 2020 will be exposed to heat of heat of unprecedented intensity. Among the people born in 1960 and living in Switzerland, this figure is only 8%. Scientists from the Zurich EPF have contributed to this work.
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