Photo: Nile River
Unless immediate, ambitious, and transboundary climate action is taken, overall warming of up to 5°C in this century is projected for the Eastern Mediterranean and Middle East, leading to unprecedented and societally disruptive extreme weather events, including heat waves, droughts, dust storms and torrential rains. The region is warming almost two times faster than the global average. Potentially devastating impacts on the health and livelihoods of the 400 million people affected will have worldwide implications. EMME sea level is projected at a pace similar to global estimates, with many countries unprepared, implying severe challenges for coastal infrastructure and agriculture, and leading to salinization of coastal aquifers, including the densely populated Nile Delta.
Story Source: Max Planck Institute for Chemistry
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/09/220906114225.htm