{"id":8348,"date":"2021-10-13T15:40:04","date_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/TheNextWeb=1369748"},"modified":"2021-10-13T15:40:04","modified_gmt":"2021-10-13T15:40:04","slug":"ai-study-climate-crisis-already-impacts-at-least-85-of-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.londonchiropracter.com\/?p=8348","title":{"rendered":"AI study: Climate crisis already impacts at least 85% of people"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Human-made climate<\/span> change may already be affecting at least 85% of the world\u2019s population, according to a new AI analysis<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Scientists produced the estimate by using the BERT language model<\/a> to<\/span> extract<\/span> environmental assessments from research papers. <\/span><\/p>\n

Their algorithm was first trained on more than 2,000 hand-coded documents. It was then applied to a trove of studies published between 1951 and 2018.<\/p>\n

In total, the algorithm<\/a> identified more than 100,000 papers documenting the effects of climate change.<\/p>\n

The researchers then used location data<\/a> from the studies to map the impacts around the world.<\/p>\n

They found that anthropogenic climate change already impacts at least 80% of the world\u2019s land area, where 85% of the global population resides. <\/span>The real figure, however, is likely to be even higher.<\/span><\/p>\n

An attribution gap<\/h2>\n

The researchers found that climate change studies were twice as likely to focus on high-income countries than low-income incomes.<\/p>\n

As low-income countries are disproportionately affected by the climate crisis, 85% is probably an underestimate.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe fact that published evidence is sparse \u2014 even where we can observe human-caused changes to temperature or precipitation \u2014 shows that there is an <\/span>urgent need for more scientific study of the impacts of climate change in the global south,\u201d said study author Max Callaghan <\/span>in a post on <\/span>Carbon Brief<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The current \u201cattribution gap\u201d restricts the algorithm\u2019s accuracy, but th<\/span>e technique could still help human experts analyze climate research. You can explore the findings for yourself in the team\u2019s interactive map<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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