Persian Gulf Can Become Too Hot And Humid For Survival By 2100: Study
Global warming could make the region around Persian Gulf inhabitable for human survival within a century, a new study warns.
According to The Washington Post, researchers used available climate change models under varying scenarios to conclude that if unmitigated, global warming could result in a combination of temperature and humidity conditions that make cities from Iran's Bandar Abbas to Dubai intolerable for most humans. Inhabitants of this region are already facing oppressive weather conditions.
"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," researchers wrote in the journal Nature.
"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."
Various climate change scenarios showed that the 'wet-bulb' temperature, a combination of temperature and humidity averaged could exceed the maximum tolerable limit of 35 degree Celsius by 2100.
"This threshold defines a limit of survivability for a fit human under well-ventilated outdoor conditions and is lower for most people," researchers wrote.
Hot and humid weather in coastal cities like Dubai and Bandar Abbas in Iran have forced most residents to adopt indoor lifestyles, which could get more restrictive if global warming goes on unmitigated.
