Climate Changes Like Erratic Weather Will Affect 85% Of World Population

The lethal consequences of climate change are not only imminent, but also far-reaching. A study claims that at least 85 per cent of all human beings will be directly affected by climate change.

Using machine learning, researchers from Germany's Mercator Research Institute on Global Commons and Climate Change fed 100,000 climate-change related studies to AI. They concluded that 85 per cent of the world's population is currently living in areas that will be adversely affected by changes in climate based on current trends.

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What machine learning tells us about climate change

The 100,000 studies about climate change were about the detectable signs of climate change caused by human beings. The findings claim that there is growing evidence of climate change's impact on communities.

One of the study authors, Max Callaghan told ABC News that in almost each study, one finding was consistent - "that the world is getting hotter, and it's getting hotter in a way that is consistent".

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The effects of human-induced climate change are being felt in 80 per cent of all of the planet's area, which is inhabited by 85 per cent of all human population.

Machine learning is essentially artificial intelligence that gets smarter with each reading it is fed. Therefore, 100,000 studies embolden its ability to reach such startling conclusions about climate change.

What changes will Earth suffer?

The software, called BERT (bidirectional encoder representations from transformers) was fed 2,373 abstracts from papers about climate change. Based on this preliminary understanding, the AI successfully identified studies that attempted to underline the effects of climate change.

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Rising temperatures will affect the seasonal cycle of Earth and in turn cause crop yields and local ecosystems to run erratic. Owing to this, resources will become limited. While it's still unclear ("attribution gap") what the effects will really look like, its effects will be felt the strongest in least developed countries.

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