One city in the Middle East is slowly becoming "unliveable" – its heat burns you!
On July 21, 2016, the Mitribah weather station in northern Kuwait recorded a temperature of 54C (129F) – the third-highest reading in the world, while the mercury mercilessly breached 50C for a staggering 19 days in 2021.
Kuwait is also heating up faster than the global average. Climate scientists believe it could be a staggering 5.5C hotter by the end of the century.
There have been shocking reports of birds falling dead from the sky and seahorses boiling in the bay. Even the hardiest pigeons are seeking shade from the ferocity of the sun. Temperatures of 50C are not just uncomfortable, they're dangerous. They're 13C (55F) above body temperature and can cause serious health problems like heat exhaustion, heart issues and even death if people are exposed for too long.
Desperate measures have had to be taken to protect residents from the baking heat. Last year the Kuwaiti government issued an edict allowing funerals to be conducted at night for the very first time.
A 2020 study also found 67% of total electricity consumption in residences come from air conditioning which runs all day, every day. Indoor shopping streets also blast cool air throughout the summer months in a bid to keep traders and shoppers cool.
Joshua Wood wrote in ExpatsExchange about the "high quality of life" in this "modern, luxurious and safe" country, but warned that the heat can be "very hot from May through September" and become "insanely hot" in June, July and August.
I have read that research from last year by the Institute of Physics suggested that by the century's end, climate change could cause heat-related deaths to rise by 5.1% to 11.7% across the entire population.
One expert of environmental issues, Salman Zafar, wrote: "Kuwait could be potentially facing serious impacts of global warming in the form of floods, droughts, depletion of aquifers, inundation of coastal areas, frequent sandstorms, loss of biodiversity, significant damage to ecosystem, threat to agricultural production and outbreak of diseases".
The continuing mass influx of illegal immigrants into the US could mean that American citizens could cease to decide the outcome of elections in the country in the not-too-distant future, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (right) has predicted.
The South African-born billionaire claimed that the Democrats are wittingly refusing to address the issue, in the hope of skewing the balance in their favor.
Musk’s comment came in response to Republican lawmakers passing the Equal Representation Act in the House of Representatives on Wednesday, which would require the Census Bureau to ask respondents about their citizenship in their ten-year surveys. GOP representatives want only US citizens to be counted when determining the number of congressional seats in each state.
House Speaker Mike Johnson argued that “we should not reward states and cities that violate federal immigration laws and maintain sanctuary policies with increased Congressional representation. Common sense dictates that only American citizens should be counted for electoral apportionment”.
Democratic Representative Grace Meng of New York described the initiative as “reckless, cynical, and frankly, illegal”.
President Joe Biden’s office was quick to state that it “strongly opposes” the measure, “which would preclude the Department of Commerce’s Census Bureau from performing its constitutionally mandated responsibility”.
In a post on X on Thursday, Musk wrote: “Unanimous Democrat opposition to requiring citizenship for apportionment of House seats and Presidential electoral college votes says it all”.
According to the entrepreneur, “the Democratic Party goal is to disenfranchise US citizens by importing as many illegal immigrants as possible. Given the massive influx of illegals from every country on Earth, 2024 will probably be the last election actually decided by US citizens”.
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