Biodiversité

Un nombre croissant de linguistes et de sociologues commencent à évoquer les déplacements de populations humaines liés aux conséquences du réchauffement climatique - en particulier la montée des eaux et certaines catastrophes naturelles devenant à la fois plus fréquentes et plus intenses - comme un facteur significatif, pour les décennies à venir, de déclin des langues parlées, rapporte le Guardian.

IOM Publications The State of Environmental Migration 2014 - A Review of 2013 [ENG0368] - Description: The State of Environmental Migration series gathers the expertise of researchers, students and professionals to provide an annual assessment of the changing nature and dynamics of environment- and climate-related migration throughout the world.

We show that for thousands of years, humans have concentrated in a surprisingly narrow subset of Earth’s available climates, characterized by mean annual temperatures around ∼13 °C. This distribution likely reflects a human temperature niche related to fundamental constraints. We demonstrate that depending on scenarios of population growth and warming, over the coming 50 y, 1 to 3 billion people are projected to be left outside the climate conditions that have served humanity well over the past 6,000 y. Absent climate mitigation or migration, a substantial part of humanity will be exposed to mean annual temperatures warmer than nearly anywhere today.