Pressemitteilung von ISIpedia, 22.11.2021 (engl. Originalfassung)
What is special about our study is that we integrate the exposure of an ‘average’ person in a birth cohort to extreme events across their lifetime. While bridging between climate science and demography, we can for the first time quantify, for example, lifetime exposure to extreme heat waves (the kind that would only occur once every 100 years under pre-industrial climate conditions).
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Our results show that children are to face disproportionate increases in lifetime extreme event exposure – especially in low-income countries. Under pre-Glasgow climate pledges, newborns across the globe will on average face seven times more scorching heat waves during their lives than a person born in 1960 – which could very well be their grandparent. In addition, children born in 2020 will on average live through 2.6 times more droughts, 2.8 times as many river floods, 1.5 times as many tropical cyclones, almost three times as many crop failures, and twice the number of wildfires as people born 60 years ago.
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