With global warming continuing to rise, we have to act really fast if we want to stave off the consequences. And they will come mind you.
According to researchers at MIT, things will get unbearable in the next 50 years if we don't do something now.
According to the data, if climate change remains unchecked, over 500 million people will experience humid heat waves starting from 2070 onwards. These heat waves will be nothing like anything we've experienced before. The wet bulb temperature (WBT) would exceed 35-degrees Celsius even in the shade, more than the body is able to cool itself, and would result in even healthy people dying within six hours.
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Three regions; China, South Asia, and the Persian Gulf will be among the worst affected locations. The study predicts temperatures exceeding 35 degrees once every decade in the northern plains of China, in India's Chota Nagpur plateau, north-eastern India, Bangladesh, Qatar, Abu Dabhi, Dubai, Doha, and more.
To put that into perspective South Asia experienced a heat wave in 2015 with a WBT of 30-degrees Celsius. This resulted in 3,500 deaths in the region.
Even worse, your air conditioning won't really help. At that temperature, your AC is working overtime to cool the air, resulting in an added 20 percent demand of power. At the same time, cooling towers in nuclear reactors and electricity transformers are slower to cool, meaning power production and transmission becomes less effective. That could lead to power shortages, or even frequent outages, worsening the situation.
And this cycle would happen once a year, every year, from 2070. Yeah, if you weren't scared about global warming before, you definitely are now.