As El Niño Approaches, Scientists Predict Fierce Heatwaves, Wildfires and Floods
Emerging Pacific Ocean heat, combined with ongoing human-caused global warming (Lire plus...)
Un habitant des Tuvalu sur trois est candidat à un visa climatique en Australie
Les scientifiques craignent que l’archipel des Tuvalu dans le Pacifique, l’un des territoires les plus menacés par le changement climatique, ne devienne inhabitable d’ici 80 ans. (Lire plus...)
Quantifying the human cost of global warming
The costs of climate change are often estimated in monetary terms, but this raises ethical issues. Here we express them in terms of numbers of people left outside the ‘human climate niche’—defined as the historically highly conserved distribution of relative human population density with respect…
Future of the human climate niche
We show that for thousands of years, humans have concentrated in a surprisingly narrow subset of Earth’s available climates, characterized by mean annual temperatures around ∼13 °C. This distribution likely reflects a human temperature niche related to fundamental constraints. We demonstrate that depending on scenarios…
A Tale of Humanity and Habitability
Throughout history, humans have predominantly inhabited a surprisingly limited range of Earth's diverse climates, typically characterised by a mean annual temperature of around 13°C, i.e. human climate niches. [Lire plus...]