JoeChip · @JoeChip
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@The14

"There is a fundamental limit to the body’s coping ability: it is a fixed goalpost.

Research in 2010 demonstrated that a ‘wet-bulb’ temperature of 35 degrees Celsius or higher would make it impossible for humans to exhaust metabolic heat, due to our fixed core body temperature."

A staggeringly high number of humans will die in the run up to this goalpost.

#humans #heatdanger #climatethreat #heatwaverisk #WetBulb #heat #extremeheat #Science #Health #Environment

Last updated 1 year ago

I stopped coordinating groups of outdoor volunteers last year, but that is when I started paying attention to readings.

The name is awful, but it is a more accurate estimation of how damaging the heat is going to be to a person who is working/playing outdoors.

I just calculated the wet bulb temp at my home, and it is over 90.

We had some intermittent showers today which raised the to 92%.

WBGT over 85 can kill people. There is no acclimation.

omnicalculator.com/physics/wet

#humidity #WetBulb

Last updated 1 year ago

Ricardo Harvin · @ricardoharvin
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Knowledge Zone · @kzoneind
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How achieve their potent benefits : Nature

Promising gets US$550-million shot in the arm : Nature

Why do we care about and could they have given it a better name? : Guardian

Check our latest

knowledgezone.co.in/resources/

#knowledgelinks #temperature #WetBulb #vvaccine #tuberculosis #Health #drugs #psychedelic

Last updated 1 year ago

Dom Pates · @dompates
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Parts of it are irrepressibly bleak, like the heat wave that opens the book. Other parts felt quite hopeful, like the slow solar-powered airships touring over the Earth’s surface and alighting on places of interest. (6/20)

#WetBulb

Last updated 2 years ago

bs2 · @bsmall2
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> .. ‘The ’, depicts an intense heatwave in India. In an ‘ordinary town’ in the northern state of , people are struggling to cope with unbearable heat and humidity. It is the combination of the two, measured by the so-called ‘ ’, that is potentially fatal. When it approaches the core body temperature of 36C, sweat cannot evaporate and humans can no longer cool themselves down...
steelcityscribblings.uk/wp/202

#WetBulb #WetBulbTemperature #uttarpradesh #kimstanleyrobinson #ministryforthefuture

Last updated 2 years ago

bs2 · @bsmall2
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> This map shows locations that experienced extreme heat and humidity levels briefly (hottest 0.1% of daily maximum wet bulb temperatures) from 1979-2017. Darker colors show more severe combinations of heat and humidity. Some areas have already experienced conditions at or near humans' survivability limit of 35°C (95°F).
climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-clim

#humidity #WetBulb #climate

Last updated 2 years ago