Global population living with extreme heat could double by 2050, warns Oxford University study

London, Feb 3: The global population living with extreme heat could double by 2050 if the world reaches an increasingly likely scenario of 2 degrees Celsius of global warming above pre-industrial levels, a University of Oxford study has warned in the UK.

The ‘Global gridded dataset of heating and cooling degree days under climate change scenarios’ analysis published in the ‘Nature Sustainability’ journal last week found that the largest affected populations of extreme heat will be in India, Nigeria, Indonesia, Bangladesh, Pakistan and the Philippines.

The Central African Republic, Nigeria, South Sudan, Laos, and Brazil are predicted to see the most significant increases in dangerously hot temperatures.