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While Europe battles with a heatwave named Lucifer, the Middle East is enduring a summer so brutal that even those accustomed to Baghdad’s searing August weather are labelling it “ungodly”.
As temperatures rose towards 51C (124F) on Thursday, Iraq’s government declared a mandatory holiday, allowing civil servants to shelter at home.
So far this month in the Iraqi capital, every day but one has reached 48C or higher, and the forecast is for the high temperatures to continue for the next week.
Catastrophic heatwaves triggered by climate change could render parts of south Asia uninhabitable by the end of the century, potentially upending the lives of millions of people across India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, and Pakistan.
Recent climate change simulations show that the wet-bulb temperature—a combined measure of humidity and temperature—in some parts of the region could exceed what humans can deal with. The human body cannot effectively cool itself beyond a wet-bulb temperature of 35 degree Celsius (°C), which is, therefore, considered the upper limit of survivability. But the research suggests that areas in the Chota Nagpur Plateau, northeastern India, and Bangladesh could breach that mark if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise throughout the century, endangering approximately 4% of south Asia’s population by 2100.
Wrong. The highs are new, and the extent of the individual heat waves are new.Meh....it's common practice to do business at night in the middle east due to the heat.
This is nothing new.
Wrong. The highs are new, and the extent of the individual heat waves are new.Meh....it's common practice to do business at night in the middle east due to the heat.
This is nothing new.
Silly Billy, once again you are pulling 'facts' out of your ample ass, and they stink.LOL
More of Matthew's THE SKY IS FALLING....!!!!!!
The region is a desert, humidity fell to 4%, like it does most every hot year and day time heat soared like it always does when water vapor is not present. It even does it in our deserts (Death Valley). But the region is less than 3% of the Northern Hemisphere and this has happened before... many times.....
Will you do some research before you post...F-ing moron..
