The new generation will have 2 times more forest fires and 2.8 times more floods

If current climate policies do not change, a new generation of children will experience

seven times more extreme heat waves,There will be 2.6 times more droughts, 2.8 times more floods, almost three times more crop failures, and twice as many forest fires. All this is compared to people who were born 60 years ago.

International group for the first time quantifiedassessed the impact of droughts, heat waves, crop failures, floods, tropical cyclones and wildfires on a generation. They took the period from 1960 to 2020, and calculated how many extreme events occurred in the life of each individual generation.

The results show that if globalIf temperatures rise by 3°C in the next hundred years, a child who turns six in 2020 will experience twice as many forest fires and tropical cyclones, three times as many floods, five times as many droughts in their lifetime, 36 there will be times more extreme heat waves, and crop failures will occur four times more often.

If the temperature rises by 3.5 ° C, there will be 44 times more heat extremes.

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