"Percent of the world population currently exposed to potentially deadly heat for 20 or more days a year: 30Percent that could be exposed to deadly heat for 20 or more days a year by 2100 if greenhouse gas emissions continue growing at the present rate: up to 76Number of people globally who could face chronic water scarcity by 2100 if temperature rise exceeds 2 degrees Celsius: up to 3,000,000,000"
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| Left to right, top to bottom, A wildfire near in Owens Valley, Calif., Australia's Great Barrier Reef, cars stranded in a parking lot after a flash flood in Nashville, Tenn., a herder walked past the carcasses of his forty goats that died of hunger during a drought in Dertu, Wajir County, Kenya and a winter storm Irving, Texas. |
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