See what three degrees of global warming looks like | The Economist

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3°C. It can be the difference between snow and sleet.

Wearing a jacket or not?

In your day-to-day life,it may not seem significant.

But 3°C of global warming would be catastrophic.

Heatwaves,droughts,extreme precipitation,even fire.

3°C of warming is really disastrous.

The scary thing is,the world is well on its way there.

Since the industrial revolution,the Earth has warmed between 1.1°C and 1.3°C. This is a problem that babies you pass in the street will have to live with.

Children born today are up to seven times more likely to face extreme weather than their grandparents If global temperatures do rise by 3°C,what would their world look like?

Rising sea levels. Desertification. Hollywood has always enjoyed imagining the end of the world.

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