Thursday, 5 May 2016

Incredible heat could make whole swaths of North Africa and the Middle East uninhabitable within a few decades

Incredible heat could make whole swaths of North Africa and the Middle East uninhabitable within a few decades

The Middle East and North Africa are already some of the hottest places on Earth. In Riyadh, Saudi Arabia daily high temperatures can exceed 40°C (104°F) for the entire summer. Unfortunately, it’s about to get a whole lot hotter. A paper from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry and the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia today warns that by the end of the century parts of the region could be too hot for humans to survive.

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