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Related: About this forumNature Climate Change: MENA, Especially Gulf States, Potentially Uninhabitable In Warming World
CAIRO, Apr 18 2016 (IPS) - This is not about any alarming headerit is the dramatic conclusion of several scientific studies about the on-going climate change impact on the Middle East region, particularly in the Gulf area. The examples are stark. Within this century, parts of the Persian Gulf region could be hit with unprecedented events of deadly heat as a result of climate change, according to a study of high-resolution climate models, a recent Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) research warned.
The researchtitled Persian Gulf could experience deadly heat, reveals details of a business-as-usual scenario for greenhouse gas emissions, but also shows that curbing emissions could forestall these deadly temperature extremes.
The study, which was published in detail ahead of the Paris climate summit in the journal Nature Climate Change, was conducted by Elfatih Eltahir, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at MIT, and Jeremy Pal PhD 01 at Loyola Marymount University.
The authors conclude that conditions in the Persian Gulf region, including its shallow water and intense sun, make it a specific regional hotspot where climate change, in absence of significant mitigation, is likely to severely impact human habitability in the future. Running high-resolution versions of standard climate models, Eltahir and Pal found that many major cities in the region could exceed a tipping point for human survival, even in shaded and well-ventilated spaces. Eltahir says this threshold has, as far as we know
never been reported for any location on Earth.
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http://www.ipsnews.net/2016/04/will-the-middle-east-become-uninhabitable/
hereforthevoting
(241 posts)Sorry, Europe.
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)(manually stop the page from loading or it will redirect to another page)
Southern Iran and western Saudi-Arabia will become really hot. There even MIGHT be freak summer-days where it gets so hot that literally every person going outside dies. No hyperbole.
More and more pilgrims will die during the Hadj.
Meanwhile, Saudi-Arabia is spending money big-time to buy military equipment and to wage a price-war about oil.
Umbral18
(105 posts)Bluenorthwest
(45,319 posts)MENA= Middle East and North Africa
hunter
(38,317 posts)... and killer heat waves.
greiner3
(5,214 posts)Fuck the brown folk
sylvanus
(122 posts)Nitram
(22,803 posts)Javaman
(62,530 posts)living underground and all.