ENVIRONMENT
Climate change: Millions may migrate due to extreme temperature
India is among the countries expected to have the greatest number of people living in areas of extreme heat, forcing them to relocate
AP:ASSOCIATED PRESS
Scientists have warned that more than a fifth of people on Earth will live in extreme temperatures by 2100, with more than a billion forced to migrate if the planet continues on its present climate change trajectory.
A team from the University of Exeter and experts from Europe, China and the US found that billions of people face living in a climate outside the boundaries that have allowed humanity to flourish over millennia.
About 0.9 per cent of people today live in areas with an annual average temperature above 29C. The threshold is considered the upper limit for the “niche” of temperatures that have allowed people to thrive and where population density is highest.
On a planet 2.7C warmer than pre-industrial levels — in line
