The Latest: Saudi Arabia wants more study of global warming

[Eugene]

Source: Associated Press

The Latest: Saudi Arabia wants more study of global warming

19 minutes ago

KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — The Latest on the climate talks taking place in Poland (all times local):

1:55 p.m.

Saudi Arabia’s negotiators at the U.N. climate summit want scientists to spend more time examining global warming before countries decide on policies to tackle it.

A senior Saudi negotiator told reporters that his country wants to wait for a U.N.-appointed panel to complete a further review in 2022 before countries decide whether to endorse the science.

The negotiator briefed reporters on condition of anonymity because he wasn’t authorized to be identified by name.

Saudi Arabia drew anger from environmental groups and other countries Saturday after blocking endorsement of a special report on the Paris climate agreement’s target of keeping global warming at 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 Fahrenheit).

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The negotiator accused some countries at the talks in Poland of trying to shift the focus away from emissions targets toward the phasing out of fossil fuels. The oil-rich kingdom is trying to pushing technology it hopes can remove carbon dioxide from fossil fuel emissions.

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[hatrack]

1. So the al-Saud are no, in essence, 1992 Republicans

That's nice.

[DetlefK]

2. That's funny. I have seen a worst-case-scenario where half of Saudi-Arabia becomes uninhabitable.

The paper looked what happens when the Persian Gulf heats up. It would basically saturate the surrounding region with so much humidity that sweating can no longer cool your body.

In a worst-case scenario, by the year 2100, the Gulf-States, southern Iran and Eastern and Central Saudi-Arabia will become so hot, that life becomes almost unbearable without air-conditioning. The worst-case scenario is that these regions will see occasional summer-days where it gets so hot, that any human caught outside straight-up dies from heatstroke.




Do you know how the syrian civil-war started?

Step 1: Global-warming lead to droughts. Farms went bankrupt.
Step 2: This lead to rumors of food-shortages and famine.
Step 3: This lead to unrest and protests.
Step 4: This lead to demands for more political freedom.
Step 5: This lead to the authoritarian regime saying No.
Step 6: This lead to violence.
Step 7: This lead to muslim extremists joining.
Step 8: The country is now a hellhole.



What will happen in Saudi-Arabia if their agriculture collapses?
As the extremist ideology of ISIS is a direct off-shot of Wahabism, how hard will it be for islamic extremists to pin the blame on the brutal, decadent, western-loving House of Saud?