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Limiting warming to 1.5°C may save billions from tropical storms
Cyclone Bulbul heading in the direction of India and Bangladesh in November 2019 Claudia Weinmann / Alamy Inventory Photograph
Some 1.8 billion fewer folks will expertise a number of tropical storms of their lifetimes if we restrict world warming this century to 1.5°C as a substitute of letting temperatures rise to three.1°C above pre-industrial ranges.
Proper now, about 150 million folks expertise the results of a number of cyclones every year – with these dwelling in international locations together with Bangladesh and Myanmar notably possible to take action.
“Tropical cyclones are probably the most damaging impacts of local weather change and understanding particularly …