To survive the summer heat, Qatar not only air-conditions its soccer stadiums, but also the outdoors - in markets, along sidewalks, even at outdoor malls so people can window shop with a cool breeze. And it can be addressed, at least temporarily, with gobs of money and a little technology. While climate change inflicts suffering in the world’s poorest places from Somalia to Syria, from Guatemala to Bangladesh, in rich places such as the United States, Europe and Qatar global warming poses an engineering problem, not an existential one. “Changes there can help give us a sense of what the rest of the world can expect if we do not take action to reduce our greenhouse gas emissions.” “Qatar is one of the fastest warming areas of the world, at least outside of the Arctic,” said Zeke Hausfather, a climate data scientist at Berkeley Earth, a nonprofit temperature analysis group. In a July 2010 heat wave, the temperature hit an all-time high of 50.4 degrees Celsius (122.7 degrees Fahrenheit). The temperatures are also rising because Qatar, slightly smaller than Connecticut, juts out from Saudi Arabia into the rapidly warming waters of the Persian Gulf. That’s because of the uneven nature of climate change as well as the surge in construction that drives local climate conditions around Doha, the capital. Over the past three decades, temperature increases in Qatar have been accelerating. The 2015 Paris climate summit said it would be better to keep temperatures 'well below' that, ideally to no more than 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit). The change in the World Cup date is a symptom of a larger problem - climate change.Īlready one of the hottest places on Earth, Qatar has seen average temperatures rise more than 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial times, the current international goal for limiting the damage of global warming. It is now scheduled for November, during Qatar's milder winter. Fears that the hundreds of thousands of soccer fans might wilt or even die while shuttling between stadiums and metros and hotels in the unforgiving summer heat prompted the decision to delay the World Cup by five months. Qatar, the world's leading exporter of liquefied natural gas, may be able to cool its stadiums, but it cannot cool the entire country. “I don’t need to cool the birds,” Ghani said. His breakthrough realization was that he had to cool only people, not the upper reaches of the stadium - a graceful structure designed by the famed Zaha Hadid Architects and inspired by traditional boats known as dhows. Ghani, an engineering professor at Qatar University, designed the system at Al Janoub, one of eight stadiums that the tiny but fabulously rich Qatar must get in shape for the 2022 World Cup.

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