One-third of humans ‘to live in deadly hot areas by 2070’, study finds

In just 50 years, 2 billion to 3.5 billion people, mostly the poor who can’t afford air conditioning, will be living in a climate that historically has been too hot to handle, a new study said.With every 1 degree Celsius increase in global average annual temperature from man-made climate change, about a billion or so people will end up in areas too warm day-in, day-out to be habitable without cooling technology, according to ecologist Marten Scheffer of Wageningen University in the Netherlands,…

from South China Morning Post https://bit.ly/2KWNaAC