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Climate-Exodus Expected In The Middle East And North Africa (phys.org)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Phys.Org: Researchers of the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia have calculated that the Middle East and North Africa could become so hot that human habitability is compromised. The goal of limiting global warming to less than two degrees Celsius, agreed at the recent UN climate summit in Paris, will not be sufficient to prevent this scenario. The result is deeply alarming: Even if Earth's temperature were to increase on average only by two degrees Celsius compared to pre-industrial times, the temperature in summer in these regions will increase more than twofold. This means that during hot days temperatures south of the Mediterranean will reach around 46 degrees Celsius (approximately 114 degrees Fahrenheit) by mid-century. Such extremely hot days will occur five times more often than was the case at the turn of the millennium. In combination with increasing air pollution by windblown desert dust, the environmental conditions could become intolerable and may force people to migrate.
Tell them that if we don't take action soon, more Muslims will move to their neighborhood.
global warming still better then what NK can get to any one for 100,000,000 C
Look at the seasonal variation of temperatures in Bahgdad.
A shift of a few degrees C is nothing compared to normal seasonal variation, even adjusting the topmost temperatures doesn't mean that much difference in reality.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
That's like saying Nevada might not be able to support dolphins.
This is in the summary:
"the temperature in summer in these regions will increase more than twofold"
This literally means that if the temp averaged 90F it will then average 180F. That's a lot of climate change.
Could we, you know, maybe have something that makes sense? Like "the temperature in summer in these regions will increase twice as much as previously expected"?
Slashdot may have new owners but the editing hasn't quite gotten there yet.
I'd guess at minimum, plant respiration would be hindered due to higher rates of evaporation.
Plants lose moisture through leaf pores. The pores are open to absorb CO2. As CO2 levels go up, they can absorb enough CO2 through fewer and smaller pores, so they lose less water. So higher temps will be bad for plants, but the higher CO2 levels will help mitigate the problem somewhat.
Heck, we're talking about a 1.3 degree or so rise in global temperature. That simply ISN'T ENOUGH! After the next election there will be a mass exodus to Canada (the liberal drug policies have already made it unsafe for U.S. citizens to flee to formerly tropical paradises). When that happens we need Canada to be a lot warmer. Maybe ten degrees if we just go to Toronto and Vancouver, but a lot more if Canada expects to take American Refugees into the vast sparsely populated wastelands to the north. Lets quit thinking about the needs of the terrorists and crank up the heat for the needs of our own families. Think of the children!
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
The syrian civil war was started because of a 5 year drought. We got 1 million new migrants in Europe. Unless we quit destroying the world climate we'll have 500 million migrants. Stop Using Oil Now! And retarded americans stop using gas guzzling cars.
Nature has *naturally* extincted probably 99% of the whole species, a few more wouldn't really matter.
But somebody has been advising this
“He’s not deformed, he’s just drunk!”
That isn't how a bell curve works. If you move a bell curve slightly to the left, the big change isn't in the average, but is in how much you have where you end up sampling from the extremes of the distribution. This is why for example, China doesn't have nearly as many top-tier soccer players as some much smaller countries, or how the best runners are almost all Kenyan even though the Kenyan isn't much faster than the average in most other populations. One very controversial example of this is how some populations (e.g. Ashkenazi Jews) have many more Fields Medal and Nobel Prize winners than one would expect naively, but if you move the average intelligence up just a tiny bit, you get a massive change in how many really brilliant people you have.
Is it a few more, or everything but rats, squirrels, sparrows, feral hogs and cockroaches?
Either people will find it unbearable and move away,
or the general economy will improve so much that they'll just buy air conditioning (like people in death valley).
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
Problem with that is the th emechanism of photosynthesis breaks down at higher temperatures and the plants will compete with us for O2 instead of being net producers.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
Climate fluctuates naturally. :D
Does it?
Then name as many natural causes or named fluctuations from your mind as you can. Feel free to stop early if you think it is to much for us
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
Summer heat waves have killed hundreds in Europe (mostly elderly), although it hard to distinguish "global warming" from "normal variations in temperature".
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Most animals will simply migrate to areas more favorable to them. Plants, on the other hand, lack feet...
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
And how does the plant know it should grow smaller pores?
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
Tundra, even thawed out, doesn't have enough topsoil to make farming possible. So forget that idea. Russia is going to be nervous about Chinese climate refugees. Both have nukes, and both share a common border in certain areas.
"Transparent" is a shit show that trades on every stereotype going. A man in drag is NOT a transsexual.
More reasons to build thermal and solar power generation there.
Angel-o-sphere, I'm not sure as IANAE, but I believe plants (and their leaves) naturally can control the pore size which helps prevent moisture loss during the night and days where its cloudy, so its a naturally occurring function for pores to open as much as needed to obtain CO2, but only as much as needed.
Global warming is stupid hype because we cannot look at the whole of human impact, which is regulated by population and not product choices by people in the 5% of the population that comprises the West. Climate fluctuates naturally. What does not is human use of land, which at this point is nearing epidemic proportions and will result in many extinct species. But you don't hear about that on the news.
Humanity has come reasonably close to a local extinction event a couple times in the last couple millennia. The black plague, in medieval europe, for example had about a 90% kill rate, comparable with what modern militaries would like to see in an engineered bio weapon.
What is new in the last century is that humanity is now capable of initiating its very own mass, global extinction event. Global warming could easily be comparable in scope, scale, and damage to a nuclear holocaust and the death toll due to global warming in the next one hundred years -is- going to be measured in percentages of total human population on planet earth. That is what this article is talking about.
Is this starting to sound like something you might be interested in? Homo sapiens, as a species, may in the near future cease to exist. I'd like our species epitaph NOT to read "Died from their own greed and nearsightedness." That is YOUR greed and nearsightedness, in case you were wondering.
You distinguish by looking at trend lines. That means you can't definitely say any particular extreme temperature event is caused by climate change, but you can look at the overall frequency and temperatures of such events and correlate them to other data points, and can say, overall, AGW is going to be responsible for many, if not most of them.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
There are benefits, but the costs overwhelm the benefits.
A malfunctioning septic system may see your lawn grow greener, but that's usually followed by a sewage smell and a very large bill to fix the problem.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Who EDITS this stuff? If temperatures in the Middle East are going to increase two-fold, that's a LOT more than hitting 114F. Temps there already routinely exceed 100F ... twice that would be 200F. How about "would increase by several degrees." Except that wouldn't sound so horrific, which would take some of the fun out of the shrill rantiness.
Don't disappoint your bird dog. Go to the range.
I'll mention an ice age here :)
Then find a better method of leadership :)
> This means that during hot days temperatures south of the Mediterranean will reach around 46 degrees Celsius (approximately 114 degrees Fahrenheit) by mid-century.
We already get temperatures hotter than that (47 C) in Adelaide, South Australia.
It's why I left.
Fuck that place and fuck that heat.
You can tell how powerful someone is by the magnitude of the crime they can commit and be able to get away with.
There is a good chance that climate change will, in fact, bring more precipitation to Northern Africa:
http://news.nationalgeographic...
The black plague, in medieval europe, for example had about a 90% kill rate, comparable with what modern militaries would like to see in an engineered bio weapon.
Spreading throughout the Mediterranean and Europe, the Black Death is estimated to have killed 30–60% of Europe's total population. In total, the plague reduced the world population from an estimated 450 million down to 350–375 million in the 14th century.
The cleverer plants are tasty. Animals will ingest their seed and thus the plants' children will migrate to wherever the animals go.
'You're either part of the solution or part of the problem' are the problem.
I'm so glad that the El Nino is fading. The Warmistas certainly enjoyed the last year. Finally some warming to talk about. Statistically it's rather small and insignificant, and they had to cool the past again, but it's there. Now they have their fingers and toes crossed hoping that the slight rebound in Artic ice will take a nosedive. Where's the next major conference? Somewhere nice I'm guessing.
Yea, lets criticize the "hippy sorts" when Nixon and Henry Kissinger believed the war in Vietnam was unwinnable and “simply wanted to punt the issue until after the 1972 elections, after which they expected South Vietnam to collapse.” And Robert McNamara even admitted this and that he was just sending kids to their deaths for political reasons believing that we could not win that war. But by all means, lets try to shift the blame to the dirty hippies.
I'm an American. I love this country and the freedoms that we used to have.
Just build more coal power stations and fire up your air-conditioning. Problem solved!
Sorry, my fault. You sounded as if you wanted to indicate that plants in future will have smaller pores.
Cost free eBook I read (by iBook/Kobo/Amazon/ObookO/Gutenberg etc.): "The Green Odyssey" by Philip Jose Farmer.
Expiration. The one-percenters realized a few decades ago that with fewer and fewer menial jobs remaining, there would be waaaay too many of the underclass that could ultimately threaten their lifestyles and very lives. Thus military, environmental, and especially economic policies have been implemented to 'thin the herd'. Explains quite a bit, actually.
Translation: "I don't understand the science, but I will act as if I do, as clearly the problem must lie elsewhere".
You seem to have a real issue with Carter... odd for the man who is probably the most productive ex-president in American history. The man only went and eradicated and entire disease from humanity since he left office, and he is a few months from eradicating a SECOND one.
But yeah... a president who actively avoided wars and were more focussed on saving lives than taking them and has the sense to employ highly skilled scientists to tell him how to solve problems rather than lobbyists (and continued to do so after leaving office - which is how he achieved the eradication of one disease and is on the verge of doing it again) ... can't have that !
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The increased warmth, and melting of the polar ice caps leads to an increased global humidity. This in turn leads to a reduction in deserts, and makes the north African and southwest Asiatic regions far more habitable. Allowing moisture to be captured and utilized to spur plant growth. Global Warming in fact could allow rich Arab countries to re-green their deserts.
Global Cooling in fact leads to more temperature extremes and an increase in equatorial deserts. That may seem counter-intuitive, but cooling increases ice caps, which in turns locks up much of the earth's water moisture, leading to dryer climates and increases in equatorial desert regions.
Global Warming increases moisture vapor in the air. Their crops are not going to dry out, in fact, moisture traps will become far more effective allowing for a greater increase in biomass production and a reduction in deserts.
You appear to be woefully ignorant of just what has been ascertained, and the level of confidence thereof.
You are getting your scientific learning from the guy who wrote Jurassic Park. Please stop.
You might not want to post to opinion pieces at WUWT, but to actual papers in real journals. That's if you want people to take you seriously, that is.
More interesting information at his website.
This should work out great as long as we stop killing animals for eating our tasty plants and making plants whose seeds can't survive in the wild.
If you think someone isn't free to have a different definition of "freedom" you may be a tyrant.