Iran soared up to a scorching 52.2°C (126°F) today

Iran soared up to a scorching 52.2°C (126°F) today(twitter.com)

56 points by jonathanehrlich 4 years ago | 20 comments

labster 4 years ago |

There are going to be a lot of climate refugees in the next quarter century. Crop failures, and literally unlivable temperatures like these. I doubt even Rwanda will be able to take them all in.

EdwardDiego 4 years ago | |

Certain crops will become untenable in some areas, but in other areas, certain crops will become tenable that once weren't.

But none of this is new, what's new (aside from the anthropogenic cause) is that Homo sapiens' usual coping mechanism of migration is no longer feasible.

This is where the problems and conflicts will come.

Avamander 4 years ago | | |

No, more extreme fluctuations (that on average end up being warmer) do not make crops tenable in areas where they previously were not.

d0mine 4 years ago | | |

Climate change doesn't mean just the temperature become a few degrees warmer. The most noticeable change is that one in century event may happen annually now: extreme heat, extreme cold, floods, hurricanes, etc.

hourago 4 years ago | | |

> Homo sapiens' usual coping mechanism of migration is no longer feasible.

Migration is extremely common, that most migrants do not reach Europe or the USA did not mean that they are not migrating.

I may assume that you mean that Europe/USA cannot be the destination of all of them. But, I do not even think that most people is so willing to change to a different place. They will migrate as much as needed but not more.

eurasiantiger 4 years ago | | |

And that is the coping mechanism for overpopulation.

nomel 4 years ago |

For some perspective, since this seems to be on the sensational side, the yearly average high for August is 117, with temperatures routinely reaching into the 120s, with similar reports found through the last decade (on mobile, can’t reference easily).

refurb 4 years ago | |

So it's not a record temperature, just a really hot temperature in a place that routinely sees really hot temperatures?

2000UltraDeluxe 4 years ago | | |

It's a heat record for a very hot location for this particular time of year (yesterday's record beat the previous record with 0.2C).

If Iran's anything like Europe (and I truly have no idea if it is) then the real heat won't hit until July.

hansword 4 years ago | |

Every year from now on is going to be the hottest year on record.

t0bia_s 4 years ago | | |

In average maybe, not in records. Highest temperatures are vary quite a lot since we measure temperatures in history.

pyinstallwoes 4 years ago | | |

Wanna bet on that?

nielsbot 4 years ago |

See you next year for a new record high temp.

t0bia_s 4 years ago |

Record is 56.7°C (134°F) from 1913.

- https://wmo.asu.edu/content/world-highest-temperature

King-Aaron 4 years ago |

That's not ideal. I wonder what the wet bulb temperature was recorded at