Persian Gulf Temperatures May Be At the Edge of Human Tolerance In 30 Years (arstechnica.com)

Posted by samzenpus on Sunday November 8, 2015 @10:03PM from the it's-getting-hot-in-here dept.

An anonymous reader writes: According to a new climate study the Persian Gulf may become so hot and humid in the next 30 years that it will reach the threshold of human survivability. Ars reports: "Existing climate models have shown that a global temperature increase to the threshold of human survivability would be reached in some regions of the globe at a point in the distant future. However, a new paper published by Jeremy Pal and Elfatih Eltahir in Nature Climate Change presents evidence that this deadly combination of heat and humidity increases could occur in the Persian Gulf much earlier than previously anticipated."

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Re:The general consensus amongst many Americans by moehoward · 2015-11-08 23:41 · Score: 5, Interesting

Well, we already did enjoy nice bottles of English wine. In the medieval warming period, vineyards were all over northern England. Today, many street names still have names of grape varieties as a result of those times.
Oh, crap. We can't talk about that. Nevermind.

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