The first World Cup to be held in the Middle East is highlighting the region's intense vulnerability to climate change, as the host nation Qatar is in the midst of a strong heat wave that new research shows was made more likely by climate change.
And soon it may be too hot to survive even for those who don't do outdoor manual labor. The"wet bulb" temperature is the temperature at which water evaporates, and it rises with both heat and humidity. If it is 109 °F and 60% humidity, for example, theis 95.86 °F. A wet bulb temperature of 35 °C is the threshold for human survival.
"The Persian Gulf is one of the few places in the world ever to record a wet bulb temperature that exceeds the threshold of human survivability, 35C,"Modeling from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology hasif greenhouse emissions do not decrease, cities such as Abu Dhabi, Dubai and Doha would exceed wet bulb temperatures of 35 C several times per year by 2100.
Other very hot countries — like most of sub-Saharan Africa — are often very small contributors to climate change, but many wealthy Middle Eastern nations are among theof carbon dioxide per capita, partly due to the emissions from oil and gas production. Qatar, Bahrain and Kuwait are the three highest per capita emitters in the world, and the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Oman are also in the top 10.
"In the E.U, we are seeing a declining trend of emissions, but this is not the case for the Middle East," Georgios Zittis, one of the authors of the Review of Geophysics article,Meanwhile, in some of the poorer places such as Iraq, Gaza, and Lebanon, electricity cannot be delivered for more than a few hours per day, making round-the-clock air conditioning impossible for anyone except those wealthy enough to own a private generator.
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