Climate change could wipe out 40% of species in Arab world - report

[Ed Barrow]

Source: Jordan Times

Arab countries will be devastated by climate change, which threatens to wipe out almost half of the species in the region and transform the Levant into an “infertile crescent”, warned a report released on Sunday.

The “2009 Arab Environment: Climate Change. Impact of Climate Change on Arab Countries” report, released yesterday by the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED), indicated that the phenomenon will lead to fewer water resources, a rise in sea levels, damage bio-diversity and spread diseases throughout the region.

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“With continuing rising temperatures, water flow in the Euphrates River may decrease by 30 per cent and the Jordan River by 80 per cent before the turn of the century,” the report warned.

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Biological diversity in Arab countries will become another casualty of intensifying climate change, revealed the report, warning that a 2¼C rise in temperatures will cause 40 per cent of all species in Arab countries to become extinct.



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[geomon666]

1. I'm sure that'll make people like Rush happy. n/t

[GlennWRECK]

2. Could you imagine?

That would be a damn shame. Any time nature is wiped out our world takes a step backwards.
When nature wipes out other nature though, well, I guess it's just unfortunate.

[SunnySong]

3. Overpopulation is a bigger problem in the middle east than climate change.

The population growth is very high without the social or economic systems in place to support them.

The environment always suffers under such circumstances.

[glinda]

4. that and oil

[Uncle Joe]

5. Solar energy would be such a natural fit for much of that region,

if there's one thing the desert has other than sand it's sunlight.

Thanks for the thread, Ed Barrow.

[hughee99]

6. Is one of those species homo sapiens?

Maybe global warming was *'s "exit strategy" in the Middle East.

[KurtNYC]

7. I imagine there are also projections of which areas of the

world will be best in 20 years. Where are they?