Climate Change: North Africa, Middle East Increasing Temperatures Put Residents In Jeopardy

Climate refugees are more likely to increase significantly in the coming years. The findings are according to a research, which showed that both North Africa and the Middle East may become so hot that it will no longer be suitable for human habitation.

The climate study was conducted by the researchers from the Cyprus Institute in Nicosia and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry. Based on their findings, the objective of limiting the global warming up to less than two degrees Celsius, as agreed at the United Nations climate summit held in Paris recently, is not going to be enough to avoid this event.  

Climate during summer in the hot regions of North Africa and Middle East is expected to grow over two times more rapid than the average global warming. Which means, on hot days, the temperature of the Mediterranean region can reach at 46 degrees Celsius by mid-century. The extremely hot season will be experienced five times more frequent than the days experienced at the turn of the millennium. With the conditions of the environment becoming less tolerable, combined with the rising rate of air pollution through the windblown desert dust, more and more people are expected to migrate,  Science News reported.

According to Max Planck Institute for Chemistry director Jos Lelieveld, who is also a Professor at the Cyprus Institute, the climate in the huge portions of North Africa and the Middle East may change in a way that the existence of its people will be put in jeopardy. Along with his colleagues, Lelieveld have studied how temperatures are going to develop in North Africa and the Middle East over the course of the 21st century.

Based on this, they found that the temperature in these areas during the summer is going to increase more than two times, even when the temperature of the Earth were to rise on the average of two degrees Celsius than the pre-industrial period.

Climate change may lead to a dramatic decline of living conditions for humans in the Middle East and North Africa regions and people may soon be forced to leave, according to Gizmodo.