Saudi-Arabia's existence threatened by climate-change. Yet they sabotage climate summit.

[DetlefK]

https://news.yahoo.com/saudi-led-group-oil-producing-155329437.html

Saudi Arabia has successfully lobbied for a major climate change report to be scrubbed from international negotiations on limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C.

The Saudis led a loose coalition of oil-producing nations, including the US, Russia and Iran, that objected to the science behind the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).

The report emphasised the need to keep warming down to 1.5C as a matter of survival for many countries and called for drastic action to reach this goal, with the whole world needing to hit zero emissions by 2050.

However, as a result of the Saudi-led intervention, this landmark report was blocked from formal climate talks at Bonn this week. This will substantially weaken its influence on future policy.

The final UN report had just five watered-down paragraphs on IPCC findings, explaining that they were based on the “best science available” without including more concrete information on how countries should reduce emissions targets.

This is incredibly short-sighted. I've seen a climate-study of the Persian Gulf with simulations up to the year 2100.

The Persian Gulf will heat up and become so hot and so moist that the region will become almost uninhabitable. It will be so hot that you can barely survive outside because you can't sweat because of the moisture. The scientists predicted that there could be the occasional freak hot summer-day where it gets so hot that anyone caught outside straight-up dies of heat-stroke.

Affected areas will be the UAE, southern Iran, Kuwait, southern Iraq, eastern Saudi-Arabia and central Saudi-Arabia.

This article goes beyond that paper and sees danger for the region from Yemen to Egypt as well.
https://www.euractiv.com/section/climate-environment/opinion/with-climate-change-life-in-the-gulf-could-become-impossible/

[Hortensis]

6. No, "they" did not.

How does your sentiment elevate you above those who do support the extremists who did, btw? The ones who say let us all die?

[Achilleaze]

2. Saudis think like republicans

[Hortensis]

7. Yes. Hard-core conservative. Putin's

Government also.

The oil countries also are existentially dependent on oil exports, though. More excuse.

[procon]

3. Scary stuff...

Mass migrations will stress other nations. This will require a multi faceted approach shared by every nation to relocate and distribute huge masses of people.

This will not be solved just by military force or isolationist policies. The flow of desparate populations trying to survive can't be stopped. How will ALL nations manage the influx of climate refugees and plan to resettle and absorb disparate ethnic groups?

[roamer65]

4. Canada should build a wall.

[3Hotdogs]

5. Mr. Gump: "Stupid is, as stupid is."

[eppur_se_muova]

8. The Royal Family plans to retire to Switzerland with their billions ...

... who cares what happens to the proles left behind ?

[DetlefK]

9. Saudi-Arabia has colonies in Africa. Maybe they will decide to go there.

* Saudi-Arabia is trying to control Yemen.
* Saudi-Arabia has stolen land in Africa via bribed officials and on this land they are now running agriculture that they export back into Saudi-Arabia.

[smirkymonkey]

10. I don't expect that Africa will be much better, temperature-wise.

Sooner or later, all of the nations with hotter climates are going to be unlivable and they tend to be the most populated. It's going to be a disaster.