Fig. 2: Population exposed outside of the temperature niche, following different SSPs. | Nature Sustainability

Fig. 2: Population exposed outside of the temperature niche, following different SSPs.

From: Quantifying the human cost of global warming

Fig. 2

a–f, Fraction of population (%; a–c) and absolute population (billion people; d–f) exposed to unprecedented temperatures (MAT ≥29 °C; a,d), left outside the niche due to temperature change only (b,e,) and left outside the niche due to temperature change and demographic change (c,f) for different SSPs. Calculations are based on MAT averaged over the 20-year intervals and population density distribution at the centre year of the corresponding intervals. Data are presented as mean values with the shaded regions corresponding to the 5th–95th percentiles.

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