The “father of global warming” has a dire warning for people living in hot, tropical locales. Meryll/Shutterstock James Hansen has a dire warning for the Middle East and tropical areas: Summer is coming. By the end of the century, the so-called “father of global warming“ predicts that rising temperatures caused by human-induced climate change will render the countries that already experience hot summers unlivable during those months. “The tropics and the Middle East in summer are in danger of becoming practically uninhabitable by the end of the century if business-as-usual fossil fuel emissions continue, because wet bulb temperature could approach the level at which the human body is unable to cool itself even under well-ventilated outdoor conditions,” Hansen, an adjunct professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute, wrote in anew paper published Wednesday and co-authored with his colleague Makiko Sato. Read the rest at The Huffington Post. From:  Middle East Summers Could Become Unlivable By End Of Century ; ; ;

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Middle East Summers Could Become Unlivable By End Of Century