Massive Migration likely from Persian Gulf because of Climate Change!

[Indus]

From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...mans-by-centurys-end_562e8d32e4b00aa54a4ac233

Parts Of Persian Gulf Could Be Too Hot For Humans By Century's End

If carbon dioxide emissions continue at their current pace, by the end of century parts of the Persian Gulf will sometimes be just too hot for the human body to tolerate, a new study says.

How hot? The heat index — which combines heat and humidity — may hit 165 to 170 degrees (74 to 77 Celsius) for at least six hours, according to numerous computer simulations in the new study. That's so hot that the human body can't get rid of heat. The elderly and ill are hurt most by current heat waves, but the future is expected to be so hot that healthy, fit people would be endangered, health experts say.

"You can go to a wet sauna and put the temperature up to 35 (Celsius or 95 degrees Fahrenheit) or so. You can bear it for a while, now think of that at an extended exposure" of six or more hours, said study co-author Elfatih Eltahir, an MIT environmental engineering professor.

While humans have been around, Earth has not seen that type of prolonged, oppressive combination of heat and humidity, Eltahir said. But with the unique geography and climate of the Persian Gulf and increased warming projected if heat-trapping gas emissions continue to rise at current rates, it will happen every decade or so by the end of the century, according to the study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change.

This would be the type of heat that would make deadly heat wave in Europe in 2003 that killed more than 70,000 people "look like a refreshing day or event," said study co-author Jeremy Pal of Loyola Marymount University

It would still be rare, and cities such as Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Doha wouldn't quite be uninhabitable, thanks to air conditioning. But for people living and working outside or those with no air conditioning, it would be intolerable, said Eltahir and Pal. While Mecca won't be quite as hot, the heat will likely still cause many deaths during the annual hajj pilgrimage, Eltahir said.

"Some of the scariest prospects from a changing clime involve conditions completely outside the range of human experience," Carnegie Institute for Science climate researcher Chris Field, who wasn't part of the study, wrote in an email. "If we don't limit climate change to avoid extreme heat or mugginess, the people in these regions will likely need to find other places to live."

Said Dr. Howard Frumkin, dean of the University of Washington school of public health, who wasn't part of the research: "When the ambient temperatures are extremely high, as projected in this paper, then exposed people can and do die. The implication s of this paper for the Gulf region are frightening."

But if the world limits future heat-trapping gas emissions — even close to the amount pledged recently by countries around the world ahead of climate talks later this year in Paris — that intolerable level of heat can be avoided, Eltahir said.

It's no coincidence that the far side which dislikes immigrants also denies climate change. They also happen to dislike Muslims as has been made abundantly clear.

I think the number of people in the Persian Gulf are mostly 90% muslim and they far outnumber the people on some islands that are sinking beneath the ocean like the Marshall Islands or Maldives. They will have to move somewhere.

So this should be interesting as I'm curious what kind of spin the climate change denying xenophobes will put on this.

 

[alien42]

It's no coincidence that the far side which dislikes immigrants also denies climate change. They also happen to dislike Muslims as has been made abundantly clear.

i am not the far side, i have no problems with immigrants, i don't deny climate change and i have no problem with Muslims yet i find the premise of this post a bit absurd.

humans live in the some of the most severe conditions on this planet, be it extreme cold or heat, so i guess i'm not worried about where we can live. imo, the agriculture we depend on is far more sensitive to the environment than we are.

in the end, the planet will live on, long after we destroy our habitable environment.

/end pessimist

 

[Roflmouth]

From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...mans-by-centurys-end_562e8d32e4b00aa54a4ac233

Parts Of Persian Gulf Could Be Too Hot For Humans By Century's End



It's no coincidence that the far side which dislikes immigrants also denies climate change. They also happen to dislike Muslims as has been made abundantly clear.

I think the number of people in the Persian Gulf are mostly 90% muslim and they far outnumber the people on some islands that are sinking beneath the ocean like the Marshall Islands or Maldives. They will have to move somewhere.

So this should be interesting as I'm curious what kind of spin the climate change denying xenophobes will put on this.

Excuse me, but since you're not a climate scientist we can safely ignore your latest line of bullshit.

 

[michal1980]

fear mongering is once again only allowed by one side on these boards.

 

[alien42]

fear mongering is once again only allowed by one side on these boards.

and that comment is even more ignorant than the OP. your side of the political spectrum is based and thrives on fear mongering.

 

[Jaskalas]

From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...mans-by-centurys-end_562e8d32e4b00aa54a4ac233

Parts Of Persian Gulf Could Be Too Hot For Humans By Century's End

Parts of the Persian Gulf are already too hot for humans.

And since they're a bunch of genocidal freaks, mass immigration from there has already begun. End of Century? More like today.

 

[Indus]

Parts of the Persian Gulf are already too hot for humans. [/URL]

That is true. I was watching a documentary on the workers of the Qatar World Cup Stadiums and an alarming number have died due to heat stroke alone.

 

[Spungo]

The 21st century is ours!

 

[Indus]

Hutinee!

 

[master_shake_]

this is news?

i mean places near the equator are hot?

NO SHIT!

 

[senseamp]

They are benefiting from selling hydrocarbons which create the CO2 causing the climate change, so I won't feel too sorry for them when they bake.

 

[cubby1223]

and that comment is even more ignorant than the OP. your side of the political spectrum is based and thrives on fear mongering.

Unlike the progressives who portray a picture of GOP control where every black man is placed back in shackles, every Muslim vaporized in nuclear explosions, and every women confined to the kitchen only allowed out when it's time to give birth?

It's only "fear mongering" if you don't believe it to be true.

Earth torn apart by cataclysmic weather due to global warming? Earthquakes shattering the surface due to oil & gas drilling? Women unable to receive medical help? The eradication of the gays? The predicted assassination attempt on the black man in the oval office? The enslavement of the common citizen to corporate control?

 

[cubby1223]

Anyways, to the thread's main subject... regardless of when "Climate Change" will cause massive migration from the Persian Gulf, the oil under the lands will run dry and those nation's sources of income will dry up too. Those nations will no longer be able to support even close to tho current numbers of inhabitants.

Climate change or not, people will be vacating those regions in the coming decades.

 

[IGBT]

Nothing new here..just the usual liberal fables and mythology the eco-KOOKS so embrace at every opportunity.

 

[sportage]

I just keep thinking and watching all those photos on TV from stuff happening over here in our country, and every time you hear the people involved saying "this has never happened before", or "I'm 81, lived here all my life and never seen anything like this.", or "we lost everything. We'll have to start all over."

Gee but, is there not a trend happening here?
"never happened before", never like this", never this bad", we've never seen this before".
How bad is bad?
How bad does it have to become before even the most anti climate change folks start asking the questions?
Does it take a 200 mph hurricane to blow some sense into their head?
Or taking their last gasp for air before going under for the third time in the local Wal-Mart parking lot?
I have this feeling that the problem of denying climate change will work itself out, the hard way.
When you wake up and find your house floating down main street with you in it, that there just might be one clue to take note of.
See you in the news papers.

 

[pcgeek11]

Not many deny " climate change ". The climate has been changing even before man walked the earth. It will continue to change now and forever. There is nothing you puny men can do to reverse it. The climate change promoters need to stop being so full of yourself.

They need to start digging underground now in the Persian Gulf area.

 

[1prophet]

From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry...mans-by-centurys-end_562e8d32e4b00aa54a4ac233

Parts Of Persian Gulf Could Be Too Hot For Humans By Century's End



It's no coincidence that the far side which dislikes immigrants also denies climate change. They also happen to dislike Muslims as has been made abundantly clear.

I think the number of people in the Persian Gulf are mostly 90% muslim and they far outnumber the people on some islands that are sinking beneath the ocean like the Marshall Islands or Maldives. They will have to move somewhere.

So this should be interesting as I'm curious what kind of spin the climate change denying xenophobes will put on this.

Let's import millions who are the equivalent of the religious right on steroids into secular countries, sometimes you pretend liberals in your quest to zing conservatives don't think things through before you go shooting from the hip.

 

[michal1980]

Let's import millions who are the equivalent of the religious right on steroids into secular countries, sometimes you pretend liberals in your quest to zing conservatives don't think things through before you go shooting from the hip.

Liberals only hate christians. All other far right religions they are ok with, especially if they are extremist Muslims.

 

[Spungo]

I'm just curious, but has anyone actually made a gun like this? That would be one hell of a conversation starter.

 

[Ham n' Eggs]

OP would be more effective without the partisan finger pointing.

...just saying

 

[Jaskalas]

A new study claims that, by the end of this century, some cities in the Persian Gulf will be uninhabitable by humans, thanks to extreme temperatures up to 170F (76c).

World Record: 136F (58c).

Good luck with that supposed 18c rise in temps.

 

[MongGrel]

Liberals only hate christians. All other far right religions they are ok with, especially if they are extremist Muslims.

I was never aware that Christianity in general was a far right religion, considering how many different ones there are.

 

[Londo_Jowo]

Parts Of Persian Gulf Could Be Too Hot For Humans By Century's End

I guess folks won't be living in those parts eh.

 

[Jaskalas]

Also... not only is it NOT going to rise 18c degrees, but that's a global average. An increase in the Earth's temps disproportionately effects night time temps and colder regions. Arctic amplification, etc.... most of the warming happens there, not in the Gulf.

The biggest problem the Gulf, and indeed the world, faces would be Sea Level Rise.

 

[thraashman]

I was never aware that Christianity in general was a far right religion, considering how many different ones there are.

The way Jesus taught in the Bible would make Christianity far left, the way American conservatives practice Christianity is far right.