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1. The vast North China Plain, one of China’s main food growing regions and currently home to about 400 million people, is set to become almost uninhabitable due to unsurvivable heat waves as we zoom beyond 2.5°C of global warming.
2. India faces the same threat.
1. The vast North China Plain, one of China’s main food growing regions and currently home to about 400 million people, is set to become almost uninhabitable due to unsurvivable heat waves as we zoom beyond 2.5°C of global warming.
2. India faces the same threat.
'This spot is just going to be the hottest spot for deadly heatwaves in the future,” said Elfatih Eltahir, a hydrology and climate professor at MIT'
Virtually uninhabitable as early as the 2060s, but unsurvivable humid heat waves are set to occur earlier.
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Virtually uninhabitable as early as the 2060s, but unsurvivable humid heat waves are set to occur earlier.
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'even if the world succeeds in cutting carbon emissions, limiting the predicted rise in average global temperatures, parts of India will become so hot they will test the limits of human survivability.'
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Pakistan and Bangladesh will also be hit by unsurvivable heat waves.
This kind of deadly humid heat could begin to hit the Middle East, North Africa (or perhaps South Asia) within just a few decades, or even earlier.
This kind of deadly humid heat could begin to hit the Middle East, North Africa (or perhaps South Asia) within just a few decades, or even earlier.
