00:00 Scientists warned that climate change will be responsible for the lives of 1 billion people over the next century.
00:07 Science Alert said it clearly.
00:09 The fossil fuels that humanity burns today will be the death sentence for many lives tomorrow.
00:15 The 1 billion people prediction is based on several assumptions.
00:19 First, that for every thousand tons of carbon that humanity burns, a person dies.
00:25 Second, for every 0.1 degree Celsius of warming from now on, the world could suffer around 100 million deaths.
00:33 Even though the human death rate from climate change is extremely tricky to calculate,
00:38 the United Nations reports that every year, environmental factors take the lives of about 13 million people.
00:44 For example, some experts believe abnormal temperatures on their own may already claim as many as 5 million lives a year.
00:52 The author of the research published in Energies, energy specialist Joshua Pierce, concluded the following,
00:59 "When climate scientists run their models and report on them, everybody leans toward being conservative,
01:05 because no one wants to sound like Dr. Doom. We've done that here, and it still doesn't look good."
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