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recent study. The study, conducted by a team of five scientists and published by the
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Arabia, where the average temperature is 86 F(30℃).
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If current trends continue, more than 1 billion people in India,
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million in the Niger and Sudan regions will be living with an average annual temperature of 84
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10 F(29℃), according to Tim Lenton, Professor of Climate Change and Earth Systems Science at
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The new study does not estimate how many people will leave their home countries in search
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of cooler climates. However, in 1990, *the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change had
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this could be the greatest impact of climate change. Human migration is
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extremely difficult to predict and responds to many factors other than heat alone, Lenton said
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Still. he said his findings show that billions of people will be facing (5Conditions that could mush
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them to leave their present homes.
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