How climate change will affect generations

The IPCC released the AR6 Synthesis Report, Climate Change 2023. Featured above is a key graphic from the report uses the color-band visualization method of temperature variance each year, and then adds a new twist with five possible futures stacked within the space of the band. The timeline below the color-bands also shows the impact to people born in different age generations.

The Washington Post did a recent coverage of the report:

The report released Monday emphasizes that overall, the degree of warmth — and the subsequent health of the environment, wildlife and ourselves — can still be altered depending on policies and actions taken today. The current implemented policies would put global temperatures around 3.2 degrees of warming by 2100 — somewhere in the range of the “intermediate” or “high” pathway of future emissions scenarios depicted in the graphic, said NASA climate scientist Alex Ruane, who is a member of the core writing team for the synthesis report and helped with the overall concept and science content of the figure.

Found on The Washington Post