{"id":8496,"date":"2023-11-14T18:02:34","date_gmt":"2023-11-14T17:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/?p=8496"},"modified":"2023-11-14T18:02:34","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T17:02:34","slug":"another-looming-crisis-in-the-middle-east-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/2023\/11\/14\/another-looming-crisis-in-the-middle-east-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Another looming crisis in the Middle East: Climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span>Southern Iraq, once known as the Garden of Eden, is poised to become a scorching wasteland in the coming decades.\u00a0<\/span><span>Study<\/span><span> led by this author in collaboration with the Israel Meteorological Service&#039;s chief researcher, Dr. Yoav Levi, predicts that in the not-too-distant future, residents of this region will endure hours a day with temperatures rising above 55\u00b0C. While this grim prediction is for the future, the ominous rise in temperatures is not speculative, but is already a reality in Iraq. <\/span><span>Measurements taken between 2012 and 2019 recorded temperatures reaching a staggering 54\u00b0C on several occasions. Last year, we witnessed heat waves exceeding 50\u00b0C, causing repeated power outages, falling levels of the Euphrates and Tigris rivers \u2013 Iraq\u2019s lifelines \u2013 linked to food shortages, a drop in labor productivity due to the unbearable heat, and an increase in sandstorms that are hampering oil production. tanker access to southern ports. These challenges have not only fueled socio-economic upheavals, but also serious security disruptions, as evidenced by the violent protests in southern Iraq in 2018. (<em>YOSSI MANN<\/em>)<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Southern Iraq, once known as the Garden of Eden, is poised to become a scorching wasteland in the coming decades. A study led by this author in collaboration with Dr. Yoav Levi, a senior researcher at the Israel Meteorological Service, predicts that in the not-too-distant future, residents of the region will endure hours a day of temperatures rising above 55\u00b0C. While this grim forecast is [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}