Media: Middle East will become uninhabitable due to climate change
The Middle East will become an uninhabitable region due to climate change, and extremely high temperatures were recorded there already this summer, TASS reports
Foreign Policy magazine noted that the heat index was about 62 °C in mid-July in Dubai. At the end of June, temperatures above 51° C were recorded in Mecca in Saudi Arabia, and they killed more than 1.3 thousand pilgrims performing the Hajj.
According to the publication, rising air temperatures and water shortages lead to migration of the region's population to places that are more suitable for life – i.e. Europe – but this can lead to destabilisation of the situation far beyond the Middle East.
On June 5th, the World Meteorological Organisation published a report, according to which the temperature on Earth will be 1.1–1.9 °C higher in 2024-2028 than the average in the second half of the 19th century. There is a high probability that the heat record set in 2023 will be broken then.
