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Claim: 170F (76c) Heat waves will make Persian Gulf Uninhabitable by 2100
Watts Up with That? ^ | October 27, 2015 | By Eric Worrall

Posted on 10/27/2015 2:09:43 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee

A new study claims that, by the end of this century, some cities in the Persian Gulf will be uninhabitable by humans, thanks to extreme temperatures up to 170F (76c).

The abstract of the study:

"A human body may be able to adapt to extremes of dry-bulb temperature (commonly referred to as simply temperature) through perspiration and associated evaporative cooling provided that the wet-bulb temperature (a combined measure of temperature and humidity or degree of ‘mugginess’) remains below a threshold of 35 °C. (ref. 1). This threshold defines a limit of survivability for a fit human under well-ventilated outdoor conditions and is lower for most people. We project using an ensemble of high-resolution regional climate model simulations that extremes of wet-bulb temperature in the region around the Arabian Gulf are likely to approach and exceed this critical threshold under the business-as-usual scenario of future greenhouse gas concentrations. Our results expose a specific regional hotspot where climate change, in the absence of significant mitigation, is likely to severely impact human habitability in the future."

According to Wikipedia, the hottest temperature ever recorded was 57c (134F) in Death Valley, in 1913. 76c (170F) might not seem like much of a leap from 57c, but the cities Doha, Abu Dhabi and Bandar Abbas are all coastal cities which experience substantial Summer rainfall.

Summer rainfall and storms are natural air conditioning. When temperatures soar, evaporation, convection and storm activity remove vast amounts of excess heat from the surface and transport the heat straight up to the edge of space. The heat laden water vapour keeps rising until it condenses – the vapour simply punches straight through the bulk of the world’s greenhouse blanket, soaring into the upper reaches of the troposphere, until it finds a height at which it can dump its vast store of heat.

Anyone who has spent time in the tropics, who has seen the towering thunderheads which form in Summer, has experienced this cooling phenomenon in action. The air is always very perceptibly cooler after a major thunderstorm.

Abhu Dhabi, Bandar Abbas and Doha aren’t going to run out of “coolant” – as coastal cities, any evaporation is immediately replaced from the inexhaustible waters of the world’s oceans.

If the world warms, what is surely more likely than implausibly high maximum heatwave temperatures, is that the temperature would stay about the same, but Summer rainfall would increase.


TOPICS: Editorial
KEYWORDS: climatechange; climatechangefraud; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax
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To: Brad from Tennessee
170F (76c) Heat waves will make Persian Gulf Uninhabitable by 2100

What's their point?

21 posted on 10/27/2015 2:33:05 PM PDT by Jeff Chandler (No more Bushes. W killed the brand.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

“Anyone who has spent time in the tropics, who has seen the towering thunderheads which form in Summer, has experienced this cooling phenomenon in action. The air is always very perceptibly cooler after a major thunderstorm.”

Very noticeable in Thailand where the hottest month is also the driest (April) and then the monsoon rains start and the daily temp is 80 f to 99 f.


22 posted on 10/27/2015 2:38:00 PM PDT by JimSEA
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To: NormsRevenge

“BUild a giant dome over the Persian Gulf area. Just think of all the jobs created.”

Brilliant. Also solves the emigration problem.


23 posted on 10/27/2015 2:51:55 PM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (Things are only going to get worse.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

so the ocean will ,almost boil ,causing tons of moisture into the air forming clouds blocking sunlight which will cool everything down


24 posted on 10/27/2015 3:00:37 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Allah will save them. I’m sure they’d agree.


25 posted on 10/27/2015 3:03:55 PM PDT by Vic S
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Yeah, but will it rain Saturday?


26 posted on 10/27/2015 3:05:11 PM PDT by Puppage (You may disagree with what I have to say, but I shall defend to your death my right to say it)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

They want “warming”?

REAL warming??

We can always “warm up” a brace of B83s and W87s.

Problem solved.


27 posted on 10/27/2015 3:06:39 PM PDT by Kodos the Executioner (.. the revolution is successful, but survival depends upon drastic measures..")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Well, darn...


28 posted on 10/27/2015 3:27:02 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Regulator

I’ll give you 80 some odd hears to prove it...


29 posted on 10/27/2015 3:27:56 PM PDT by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

OK, I’ll bite.

These guys are saying 170 degrees in 85 years. Now the extremes are probably about 125. So 55 degrees in 85 years...the handy-dandy calculator says that the highest highs should go up by about 0.65 degrees per year, or 6.5 degrees by 2025.

How much you want to bet that: a) that won’t happen; and b) the enviro-wackos will continue to produce wack-job scare stories and ignore actual, you know, SCIENCE.


30 posted on 10/27/2015 3:47:34 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: NormsRevenge
BUild a giant dome over the Persian Gulf area.

Yeah, and then explode a few dozen really big and dirty nukes inside of the dome, at evenly-spaced intervals. That'll solve a number of problems.

31 posted on 10/27/2015 3:49:08 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

This is utter BS. Mother nature won’t allow an area of concentrated extreme heat. The heat will dissipate long before reaching 170F. This doesn’t pass a sniff test.


32 posted on 10/27/2015 3:54:53 PM PDT by Senator_Blutarski
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Most places could be uninhabitable much sooner because of

* Economy-crushing regulations. Planning and building codes are serving no useful purpose. Let the insecure wealthy folks hire private inspectors. Manufacturing should be legal nearly everywhere.

* Crazy real estate price regime. Houses are to use as homes, not rent-seeking casino games.

And BTW, oil will go sky high before long, and the dollar will be a third-world currency.


33 posted on 10/27/2015 4:16:47 PM PDT by familyop ("Dry land is not just our destination, it is our destiny!" --"Deacon," "Waterworld")
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I first went there in th 70s...was a shi’ite hole then and its worse today....let em cook.


34 posted on 10/27/2015 4:47:54 PM PDT by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket.l)
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To: Vendome

Not 99?

:^)


35 posted on 10/27/2015 4:50:42 PM PDT by Regulator
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To: Brad from Tennessee

I knew that there had to be an upside to global warming, or cooling, or change or...


36 posted on 10/27/2015 5:00:13 PM PDT by ataDude (Its like 1933, mixed with the Carter 70s, plus the books 1984 and Animal Farm, all at the same time.)
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To: kempster

Ditto!


37 posted on 10/27/2015 5:08:12 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck ( NOTE TO RNC: I will not be voting for another Bush. Ever. No matter what his last name is.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Where can I donate?


38 posted on 10/27/2015 5:15:14 PM PDT by West Texas Chuck ( NOTE TO RNC: I will not be voting for another Bush. Ever. No matter what his last name is.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Ah, this explains why so many of them are moving to Germany right now. They’re trying to beat the rush.


39 posted on 10/27/2015 5:20:46 PM PDT by AZLiberty (No tag today.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Don’t buy it.


40 posted on 10/27/2015 5:32:01 PM PDT by Impy (They pull a knife, you pull a gun. That's the CHICAGO WAY, and that's how you beat the rats!)
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