Meet Casey X. She was born in Alice Springs Hospital on October 13, 2018.
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| By Casey's 22nd birthday, warming will reach 1.5C. |
She came into the world screaming, before projectile-vomiting over the hospital floor and falling asleep.
Today — October 13, 2040 — she's 22, and still lives in Alice Springs. But she's been thinking more and more about leaving.
Extreme hot days in Alice Springs hit 48 degrees Celsius — nearly 3C hotter than on her first birthday. And heatwaves last much longer.
In the year she was born, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) predicted that by today, the world would be 1.5C* warmer than it was before the industrial revolution.
Read the ABC News story by Nick Kilvert - “Under IPCC forecasts babies born today will be 22 when warming hits 1.5C. What will life be like?”
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