New report warns of critical climate risks in Arab region
New report warns of critical climate risks in Arab region
arstechnica.com
New report warns of critical climate risks in Arab region
Foundations of daily life are being pushed to the brink by human-caused warming.
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As global warming accelerates, about 480 million people in North Africa and the Arabian Peninsula face intensifying and in some places unsurvivable heat, as well as drought, famine, and the risk of mass displacement, the World Meteorological Organization warned Thursday.
The 22 Arab region countries covered in the WMO’s new State of the Climate report produce about a quarter of the world’s oil