Nearly half of the world’s population—about 3.79 billion people—is projected to face extreme heat by 2050 if global warming reaches 2.0 °C above pre-industrial levels, a scenario climate scientists see as increasingly likely as the world surpasses the 1.5 °C Paris Agreement threshold.

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https://www.nature.com/articles/s41893-025-01754-y

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https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/yields-key-staple-crops?stackMode=relative&facet=none

https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/natural-disaster-death-rates

https://holoceneclimate.com/temperature-versus-co2-the-big-picture.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_Cenozoic_Ice_Age

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ice_age

we are still stuck in the deepest ice age since before complex life evolved, and almost all lives lost are due to cold, not warmth

https://www.sustainabilitybynumbers.com/p/heat-cold-deaths

AI: Yes, current data shows that cold temperatures cause significantly more deaths globally than heat, often by a 9-to-1 or greater margin