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.
What's their point?
“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.
“BUild a giant dome over the Persian Gulf area. Just think of all the jobs created.”
Brilliant. Also solves the emigration problem.
so the ocean will ,almost boil ,causing tons of moisture into the air forming clouds blocking sunlight which will cool everything down
Allah will save them. I’m sure they’d agree.
Yeah, but will it rain Saturday?
They want “warming”?
REAL warming??
We can always “warm up” a brace of B83s and W87s.
Problem solved.
Well, darn...
I’ll give you 80 some odd hears to prove it...
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.
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.
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.
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.
I first went there in th 70s...was a shi’ite hole then and its worse today....let em cook.
Not 99?
:^)
I knew that there had to be an upside to global warming, or cooling, or change or...
Ditto!
Where can I donate?
Ah, this explains why so many of them are moving to Germany right now. They’re trying to beat the rush.
Don’t buy it.
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