Qatar may soon be too hot for human beings
Qatar has been facing a change in the weather very recently. Winter used to be around till early or mid October and used to linger around until late March or even start of April.
But this year, the summer is reluctant to leave! We can still feel the humidity rising up to 70% or even higher in the day.
This is estimated to worsen in the coming years, apparently, due to the effects of global warming and green house gas emissions.
A research conducted lately projects that by the end of the century heat waves in Qatar, Abu Dhabi and Bandar Abbas could lead to temperatures at which humans physically cannot survive over a sustained period of time by around 2100.
The threshold, estimated around 77ºC, takes into account heat and humidity that prevent humans from exercising natural functions that allow the body to cool.
Such severe heat waves are expected to occur only once every decade or every few decades. But when they happen they are quite lethal.
Even without heat waves, residents of the Gulf region should prepare for today’s extreme temperatures to become the new normal.
In some cities throughout the region, temperatures on an ordinary summer day could exceed 60ºC. And, while those who can afford air conditioning may retreat to their homes, many others will be left behind.
The extreme heat waves forecast in the study would interrupt industry in the region as well as other practices.
For one, workers would be unable to stay outdoors for extended periods of time, affecting a number of businesses, including the oil industry that largely fuels the regional economy.
The heat waves would also disrupt the Hajj pilgrimage that draws millions of Muslims to Makkah each year.
The extreme heat waves forecast in the study may be avoidable if countries around the world take action to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, the researchers behind the study say.
The research comes just weeks before a conference where leaders from around the world hope to announce a global agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and keep average temperatures from rising more than 2°C by 2100.
Hence, we must all consider keeping our bodies cool so that, come what may, we don't fall prey to any worse weather conditions, now or in future.
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Interesting.. That means I could get a large bank loan this year and then not have to pay it back because there will be no bank workers ....
The average surface temperature in 2015 so far has been established as 1.2 degrees Celsius higher than in any other recorded year. A 2 degrees Celsius increase is considered catastrophic by the WHO (World Health Organization). So, we aren't really far from that. Maybe next year, Insha'Allah.
Its not going to be sudden rise in temperature on new years day of 2100. Will be a gradual rise which some of us may have to face during our life span.
The people of 2100 have to take care but why they are saying to us now
let's just enjoy life as we are still alive.
Not all.. Rizks is thinking of Cryogenics
at year 2100 for sure all current QLERS are all dead!
At least I won't be around for the next ice Age
Any urban planners / landscape architects read this - Instead of planting trees these people tend government to plant lawns and bushes to road side
The worlds has existed 4 billion years already and has seen several mass extinctions of all living things due to either heat or cold. So, it can and will come again and again. No need yo worry unless you are a dinosaur without a functioning internal temperature regulation!
sulie gets it...sulie for president...
Just got a call from Suleiman. he says the answer is so simple that he doesn't know whey no one has thought of it before - Don't paint your houses Green !
yes, very credible information...they can't even accurately forecast the weather for next week but want to play god and tell us what could/should/would happen in a 100 years...get a grip you pseudo-intelligent scientific simpletons...you can only vaguely speculate based on assumptions and then call it scientific research...a baby born in the UK, with only a brain stem but no brain, just turned two years old today and repeated 'mummy' after his mom...after the 'scientific and logical' medical community said he couldn't and wouldn't live past a few minutes or weeks...the world has existed billions of years before you...you can only attempt to understand it...but you never truly will...too hot to live it seems...
and hey OP, the one thing/solution you got from that article was that we need to consider keeping our bodies cool??? *facepalm*