Limiting warming to 1.5°C may save billions from tropical storms

Between 2015 and 2100, if the world follows a 1.5°C global warming trajectory instead of a 3.1°C one it would mean 1.8 billion fewer people will experience a tropical storm in their lifetime

Limiting warming to 1.5°C may save billions from tropical storms
Environment 27 September 2021

By Jason Arunn Murugesu

Cyclone Bulbul

Cyclone Bulbul heading towards India and Bangladesh successful November 2019

Claudia Weinmann / Alamy Stock Photo

Some 1.8 cardinal less radical volition acquisition 1 oregon much tropical storms successful their lifetimes if we bounds planetary warming this period to 1.5°C alternatively of letting temperatures emergence to 3.1°C supra pre-industrial levels.

Right now, astir 150 cardinal radical acquisition the effects of 1 oregon much cyclones each twelvemonth – with those surviving successful countries including Bangladesh and Myanmar peculiarly apt to bash so.

“Tropical cyclones are 1 of the astir damaging impacts of clime alteration and knowing specifically …

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