It was just an average August day in Basra, a city on the leading edge of climate change - and a glimpse of the future for much of the planet as human carbon emissions warp the climate.īy 2050, nearly half the world may live in areas that have dangerous levels of heat for at least a month, including Miami, Lagos and Shanghai, according to projections by researchers at Harvard University and the University of Washington.īy 7:22 a.m., it was too hot to keep going on the roof, so they ate breakfast in the shade and switched to indoor tasks. Yet what Abbas was experiencing wasn’t a heatwave. “It feels like the heat is coming out of my head,” he said.Īt these extreme temperatures, normal life is impossible. The blood reaching Abbas’s brain was probably reduced for about an hour, as the blood flow was needed elsewhere.
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