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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Environment
Damian Carrington Environment editor

Global heating will push billions outside ‘human climate niche’

Busy downtown market streets in Lagos, Nigeria
Downtown market streets in Lagos. A large number of people in Nigeria will be pushed outside the human climate niche, say experts. Photograph: peeterv/Getty Images/iStockPhoto

Global heating will drive billions of people out of the “climate niche” in which humanity has flourished for millennia, a study has estimated, exposing them to unprecedented temperatures and extreme weather.

The world is on track for 2.7C of heating with current action plans and this would mean 2 billion people experiencing average annual temperatures above 29C by 2030, a level at which very few communities have lived in the past.

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