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Several cities in the Gulf are getting increasingly accustomed to such heat. Basra — population 2. Kuwait City and Doha have experienced 50C or more in the past decade. At Quriyat, on the coast of Oman , overnight temperatures earlier this summer remained above At Mecca, the two million hajj pilgrims who visit each year need ever more sophisticated support to beat the heat.
On current trends , it is only a matter of time before temperatures exceed the record Air conditioners weighing 25 tonnes have been brought in to ventilate four of the biggest tents. Thousands of fans already cool the marble floors and carpets, while police on horseback spray the crowds with water.
Football supporters probably cannot expect such treatment at the Qatar World Cup in , and many may add to the risks of hyperthermia and dehydration by taking off their shirts and drinking alcohol. Fifa is so concerned about conditions that it has moved the final from summer to a week before Christmas.
Even walking outside can feel oppressive at higher temperatures. The feeling of foreboding is amplified by the increased threat of bush and forest fires, he adds.
What can we do to ensure that the city continues to provide important services for these conditions? What can we do to reduce temperatures in the city? Those places already struggling with extreme heat are doing what they can. In Ahmedabad, in Gujarat, hospitals have opened specialist heat wards.
Australian cities have made swimming pools accessible to the homeless when the heat creeps above 40C, and instructed schools to cancel playground time. In Kuwait, outside work is forbidden between noon and 4pm when temperatures soar. But many regulations are ignored, and companies and individuals underestimate the risks. In almost all countries, hospital admissions and death rates tend to rise when temperatures pass 35C — which is happening more often, in more places.
In the same period, it predicts the number of urban dwellers exposed to this level of extreme heat will increase eightfold, to 1. As baselines shift across the globe, 50C is also uncomfortably near for tens of millions more people. This year, Chino, 50km 30 miles from Los Angeles, hit a record of Kuwait, meanwhile, could sizzle towards an uninhabitable 60C. How to cool dense populations is now high on the political and academic agenda, says Niyogi, who last week co-chaired an urban climate symposium in New York.
Cities can be modified to deplete heat through measures to conserve water, create shade and deflect heat. In many places around the world, these steps are already under way.
The city at 50C could be more tolerable with lush green spaces on and around buildings; towers with smart shades that follow the movement of the sun; roofs and pavements painted with high-albedo surfaces; fog capture and renewable energy fields to provide cooling power without adding to the greenhouse effect.
But with extremes creeping up faster than baselines, Niyogi says this adapting will require changes not just to the design of cities, but how they are organised and how we live in them. First, though, we have to see what is coming — which might not hit with the fury of a flood or typhoon but can be even more destructive.
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