The National: The very source of the Middle East's riches threatens to ruin it. Climate change will bring even hotter temperatures, rising sea-levels inundating low-lying Arabian Gulf countries, food shortages and droughts destabilising volatile, populous neighbours.
But the counters to global warming considered so far, promising as they are, have two fatal flaws, detailed below. A solution is on the horizon - if the wealthy oil exporters have the imagination to seize it.
The region has become rich on the...