Children born today will face climate extremes on a scale never seen before with the poorest bearing the brunt of the crisis, scientists warn.
In an analysis of human exposure to climate change extremes — such as heatwaves, floods, droughts, wildfires, cyclones and crop failures — researchers found that children born in 2020 are two to seven times more likely to face one-in-10,000 year events than those who were born in 1960. And that's if warming continues under current policies to reach 4.9 degrees Fahrenheit (2.7 degrees Celsius) by 2100.
