AI confirms over 85% of the world is affected by human-induced climate change

Eighty-five percent of the world's population lives in areas impacted by human-induced climate change, according to an international team of researchers. They used a new machine learning approach to identify more than 100,000 scientific studies on the effects of climate change across every continent. This massive literature review created a global map of impacts, which the team then compared to changing trends of surface temperature and rain caused by humans. In the age of big data, using AI is an important tool for climate scientists, the researchers say. While it can't substitute for expert assessments like the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPPC), using machine learning to sort through climate studies is invaluable to helping map evidence in a systematic way.