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Africa-Press – Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>DURHAM, N.C.\u2014 As heat and humidity levels rise throughout the day because of climate change, options for moving outdoor labor to cooler hours will dramatically shrink, leading to significant worldwide labor losses, a new study led by Duke University researchers finds.<\/p>\n

Economic losses associated with this lost productivity could reach up to $1.6 trillion annually if warming exceeds an additional 2 degrees Celsius relative to the present.<\/p>\n

Workers in tropical and subtropical regions, particularly in Asia, the Middle East, Africa and the western Pacific, will bear the worst impacts, the study projects.<\/p>\n

\u201cSadly, many of the countries and people most impacted by current and future labor losses are not responsible for the bulk of greenhouse gas emissions,\u201d said Luke Parsons, a climate researcher at Duke\u2019s Nicholas School of the Environment, who led the study.<\/p>\n

\u201cMany workers in the tropics are already stopping work in the afternoon because it’s too hot,\u201d Parsons said. \u201cLuckily, about 30% of this lost labor can still be recovered by moving it to the early morning. But with each additional degree of global warming, workers\u2019 ability to adapt this way will swiftly decrease as even the coolest hours of the day quickly become too hot for continuous outdoor labor.\u201d<\/p>\n

If average global temperatures rise by another 2\u00b0 Celsius \u2014 or about 3.6\u00b0 Fahrenheit \u2014 relative to the present, labor losses in the coolest half of the day will exceed current losses in the hottest half, he said. Critical jobs, such as agricultural work and construction work, will become almost impossible to perform safely during afternoon hours in the summer in many places.<\/p>\n

India, China, Pakistan and Indonesia, where larger fractions of the population work outdoors, will experience the biggest losses overall, the study projects, but 14 less populated countries could experience higher per-capita losses. They are: Bangladesh, Thailand, Gambia, Senegal, Cambodia, United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Qatar, Brunei Darussalam, Ghana, Togo, Benin, Sri Lanka and Nauru.<\/p>\n

Parsons and his colleagues published their new peer-reviewed paper Dec. 14 in Nature Communications. In it, they project future labor losses for every country worldwide under a global temperature rise of 1\u00b0C, 2\u00b0C, 3\u00b0C and 4\u00b0C relative to the present.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur analysis shows that if we limit warming to within another degree of current levels, we can still avoid most worker productivity losses by moving heavy labor to the early morning hours. But if warming exceeds 1\u00b0C, that becomes much more difficult. It\u2019s a sliding curve, it gets exponentially worse as the temperature rises,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The scientists used a blend of observation-based meteorological data and climate model projections of temperature and humidity to estimate humid heat exposure, current labor losses and projected future labor losses under additional warming.<\/p>\n

Parsons\u2019 co-authors on the new study were Drew Shindell and Yuqiang Zhang of Duke, Michelle Tigchelaar of Stanford University, and June Spector of the University of Washington.<\/p>\n

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