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Deaths at Saudi haj show challenge of shielding pilgrims from lethal climate
Reuters ^ | June 27, 2024 | By Pesha Magid (D-Reuters)

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.

(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cop26; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greennewdeal; hoax; marxism; panicporn; propaganda
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1 posted on 06/27/2024 6:36:08 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Now why would anyone want to do that? Let Allah protect them.


2 posted on 06/27/2024 6:41:33 AM PDT by JudyinCanada (The left is loathsome, beyond anything I could have believed.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s warmer where they went...


3 posted on 06/27/2024 6:42:44 AM PDT by null and void (The last war America actually won was WWII, because the CIA wasn't organized until after that war!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“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


4 posted on 06/27/2024 6:43:25 AM PDT by Racketeer
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To: JudyinCanada

Climate Change - Bringing Hell to Earth.


5 posted on 06/27/2024 6:45:12 AM PDT by Scrambler Bob (Running Rampant, and not endorsing nonsense; My pronoun is EXIT. And I am generally full of /S)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Dehydration


6 posted on 06/27/2024 6:46:11 AM PDT by oil_dude
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To: Racketeer

Need glasses...I saw ‘FIFY’ as ‘FRY’...which works for me.


7 posted on 06/27/2024 6:46:49 AM PDT by who knows what evil? (Hospitals are the most dangerous place on Earth! Dr. David Williams)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

These primative fools thought allah would save them. Instead, he welcomed them into his home in Hell.


8 posted on 06/27/2024 6:48:06 AM PDT by Dr. Thorne (The Media is the Virus.)
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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…


9 posted on 06/27/2024 6:48:14 AM PDT by TnTnTn
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Who new summers are hot in Arabia?


10 posted on 06/27/2024 6:48:59 AM PDT by eclecticEel ("The petty man forsakes what lies within his power and longs for what lies with Heaven." - Xunzi)
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>had no access to vital services like air-conditioned buses and cool-off tents

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.

11 posted on 06/27/2024 6:50:21 AM PDT by JohnBovenmyer (Biden/Harris events are called dodo ops)
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“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.


12 posted on 06/27/2024 6:52:12 AM PDT by BobL
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Shaking my dang head. Someone should have put up warning signs. “CAUTION! DESERT AHEAD. HOT TEMPS MAY BE ENCOUNTERED”


13 posted on 06/27/2024 6:57:51 AM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this💩? 🚫💉! 🇮🇱👍!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Shows that unthinking, indoctrinated will succumb to their irrationality. Their thought masters do not care if they die.


14 posted on 06/27/2024 6:59:48 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Move Mecca to the South Pole.


15 posted on 06/27/2024 6:59:56 AM PDT by Orosius (“Wake America Up Again )
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To: rktman

RIP Sam Kinnison


16 posted on 06/27/2024 7:00:48 AM PDT by PGalt (Past Peak Civilization?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Those ahos have lived in that “lethal climate” for thousands of years.


17 posted on 06/27/2024 7:01:09 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (When did WE decide to make America a UN 5-Star Asylum Paradise for Socialist losers?)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The tramplings and stampedes are considered safe, however.


18 posted on 06/27/2024 7:03:36 AM PDT by Larry Lucido (Donate! Don't just post clickbait!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It gets hot in Saudi Arabia in the summertime?


19 posted on 06/27/2024 7:06:30 AM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem, by far, is that almost all of big media is AGENDA-DRIVEN, not-truth driven.)
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Heat-related deaths along the haj are not new, but climate change has made haj increasingly dangerous.

You lie Pesha!


20 posted on 06/27/2024 7:07:51 AM PDT by wita (Under oath since 1966 in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness)
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