For a few days a year in many places this is already true. So, unless you move underground in these places, or you can turn on an air conditioner or move underground temporarily you are not going to be a happy camper and instead might wind up a dead camper on these days.
Will Middle East Become Too Hot For Human Survival?
Extreme
heat waves more intense than anything ever on Earth will hit Abu Dhabi,
Dubai, Doha and coastal cities in Iran starting in 2070 if climate
trends continue.
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Will Middle East Become Too Hot For Human Survival?
By Cristina Silva
October 26, 2015 1:00 PM
Extreme heatwaves more intense
than anything ever on Earth will hit Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Doha and coastal
cities in Iran starting in 2070 if climate trends continue.
“Our results expose a specific regional hot spot where climate change, in the absence of significant [carbon cuts], is likely to severely impact human habitability in the future,” said Jeremy Pal and Elfatih Eltahir of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, writing in the journal Nature Climate Change.
The Middle East is already grappling with extreme weather conditions. A heat wave across the gulf this summer saw temperatures climb to 122 degrees. But the study concluded that lowering greenhouse gas emissions now could eventually avoid the too-hot-for-humans climate.
“We
would hope that information like this would be helpful in making sure
there is interest [in cutting carbon emissions] for the countries in the
region," Elfatih said of Middle East leaders. "They have a vital
interest in supporting measures that would help reduce the concentration
of CO2 in the future.”
The
scientists used standard climate computer models to come up with the
extreme future weather conditions. They predicted summer temperatures of
140 degrees in Kuwait City. Events such as the hajj, the annual
pilgrimage that draws millions of Muslims to Mecca in Saudi Arabia,
could “become hazardous to human health," especially for elderly
travelers, the study said.
“Under such conditions, climate change
would possibly lead to premature death of the weakest -- namely children
and the elderly,” the researchers concluded. Wealthy nations would likely react to such conditions by increasing air conditioning usage, but less affluent nations such as Yemen would suffer.
“The new study thus
shows that the threats to human health [from climate change] may be more
severe than previously thought, and may occur in the current century,”
Christoph Schär of the Institute for Atmospheric and Climate Science in
Zurich writes in a commentary accompanying the study.
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