Millions of children will be affected in unprecedented ways by heat waves, crop failures, river flooding, droughts, forest fires and tropical storms during their lifetime under current climate policy measures.
A new study in the journal Nature Climate Change shows that the richest ten percent of the world's population is responsible for two-thirds of the global warming observed since 1990 and the associated extreme weather events such as heat waves and droughts.
The physicist Michele Vallisneri is talking about his recent move to ETH Zurich, his research plans and the profound impact of the first gravitational-wave detection in 2015.