Posted on 06/27/2024 6:36:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
RIYADH, June 27 (Reuters) - Hundreds of the pilgrims who died in fierce heat at this year's haj were not officially registered with the Saudi authorities, with the result that many had no access to vital services like air-conditioned buses and cool-off tents.
The deaths highlight a looming challenge for organisers as climate change takes hold in the region: the practice of requiring official permits for such services is stirring concern that unregistered pilgrims could increasingly be exposed to life-threatening temperatures.
Almost two million pilgrims made their way to Mecca this year to perform haj rites as taught by the Prophet Mohammad to his followers 14 centuries ago.
Heat-related deaths along the haj are not new, but climate change has made haj increasingly dangerous.
A 2021 study found that if the world warms by 1.5 C (2.7 F) above pre-industrial levels, heat stroke risk for pilgrims on the haj will be five times greater. The world is on track to reach 1.5 C of warming in the 2030s.
"It's a situation that is only getting worse with time," said Elfatih Eltahir, co-director of the Jameel Observatory and a professor at MIT, who published a paper on the dangers of heat stress for pilgrims in 2019.
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Now why would anyone want to do that? Let Allah protect them.
It’s warmer where they went...
“The deaths highlight a looming challenge for organisers as climate change takes hold in the region”...
“The deaths highlight a looming challenge for organisers as weather change takes hold in the region”...
FIFY
Climate Change - Bringing Hell to Earth.
Dehydration
Need glasses...I saw ‘FIFY’ as ‘FRY’...which works for me.
These primative fools thought allah would save them. Instead, he welcomed them into his home in Hell.
Climate change…BS…at least on AGW…it is summer in Saudi Arabia…it gets fn hot…throw in a few 100 thousand muzzies and viola…
Who new summers are hot in Arabia?
Nor did anyone when Mohammed allegedly lived on that spot on the map 1400 year ago. Yet they want us to think a town has been there forever.
“Deaths at Saudi haj show challenge of shielding pilgrims from lethal climate”
They climate in the Saudi desert has been hot as hell, particularly in this time of year, since at least the days of Mohammad. But some things have changed. I suspect that most people who go to the Haj are from hot climates in the world, since that’s where most Muslims live.
The people who come there have money, and if they have money, they almost certainly have air conditioning, something the Globalists don’t want you to know, by the way (if you don’t believe me, go to Street View on Google Maps and you’ll see it). Now they show up in a place that rivals Death Valley and have to be outside for hours in those conditions...like most of us, not something they’re used to, and thus the deaths.
Shaking my dang head. Someone should have put up warning signs. “CAUTION! DESERT AHEAD. HOT TEMPS MAY BE ENCOUNTERED”
Shows that unthinking, indoctrinated will succumb to their irrationality. Their thought masters do not care if they die.
Move Mecca to the South Pole.
RIP Sam Kinnison
Those ahos have lived in that “lethal climate” for thousands of years.
The tramplings and stampedes are considered safe, however.
It gets hot in Saudi Arabia in the summertime?
Heat-related deaths along the haj are not new, but climate change has made haj increasingly dangerous.
You lie Pesha!
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