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Persian Gulf may soon be too hot for human life, climate simulation shows
Edit: NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/s...he-middle-east-by-the-end-of-the-century.html
Well, maybe they'll breed less and islam will become extinct?
Persian Gulf may soon be too hot for human life, climate simulation showsNow a notoriously oil-rich region, the Persian Gulf might become uninhabitable by the next century under the current global warming trends. It is thought that they will create humid heat conditions at a level incompatible with human existence, a new study reveals.
According to research published in the journal Nature Climate Change, the heat generated by greenhouse gas emissions would create conditions in the Gulf where a healthy person would not be unable to maintain a normal body temperature.
“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.
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Researchers believe that the Gulf’s geographical position will result in such unlivable moist-but-hot conditions. Authors said that under these circumstances, the annual Muslim pilgrimage to Mecca would become life-threatening and almost impossible to undertake by the year 2100.
Edit: NYT article: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/s...he-middle-east-by-the-end-of-the-century.html
Well, maybe they'll breed less and islam will become extinct?