Global warming to impact world’s emotional well-being, projects analysis of social media posts

NEW DELHI: A continued global warming could bring down the world’s emotional well-being by 2.3 per cent by 2100, according to a study that shows how climate change threatens one’s daily experience and not just health and economic stability.

Researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among others in the US, analysed 1.2 billion social media posts of 2019 from 157 countries.

Findings published in the journal One Earth show that daily maximum temperatures above 35 degrees Celsius can worsen people’s emotional well-being, with poorer countries impacted disproportionately — almost thrice — compared to richer ones.

Source: PTI News

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