"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.
#Environment #Health #Science #ExtremeHeat #Heat #WetBulb #HeatWaveRisk #ClimateThreat #HeatDanger #Humans
#humans #heatdanger #climatethreat #heatwaverisk #WetBulb #heat #extremeheat #Science #Health #Environment
I stopped coordinating groups of outdoor volunteers last year, but that is when I started paying attention to #WetBulb 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 #humidity to 92%.
WBGT over 85 can kill people. There is no acclimation.
I hope this #summer finally convinces enough people that we're not trying to avoid #ClimateChange-induced #disasters and suffering, but mitigate them.
#HeatDome #WetBulb #HeatIndex #WaterTemperature #Hurricanes #Tornados
https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/07/19/heat-wave-how-long-south-phoenix/
#tornados #hurricanes #watertemperature #heatindex #WetBulb #heatdome #disasters #ClimateChange #Summer
How #Psychedelic #Drugs achieve their potent #Health benefits : Nature
Promising #Tuberculosis #Vvaccine gets US$550-million shot in the arm : Nature
Why do we care about #WetBulb #Temperature and could they have given it a better name? : Guardian
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#knowledgelinks #temperature #WetBulb #vvaccine #tuberculosis #Health #drugs #psychedelic
Parts of it are irrepressibly bleak, like the #WetBulb 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)
> .. ‘The #MinistryForTheFuture’, #KimStanleyRobinson depicts an intense heatwave in India. In an ‘ordinary town’ in the northern state of #UttarPradesh, people are struggling to cope with unbearable heat and humidity. It is the combination of the two, measured by the so-called ‘ #WetBulbTemperature’, that is potentially fatal. When it approaches the core body temperature of 36C, sweat cannot evaporate and humans can no longer cool themselves down...
http://steelcityscribblings.uk/wp/2022/05/25/the-wrong-direction-at-maximum-speed/
#WetBulb
#WetBulb #WetBulbTemperature #uttarpradesh #kimstanleyrobinson #ministryforthefuture
> 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).
https://climate.nasa.gov/ask-nasa-climate/3151/too-hot-to-handle-how-climate-change-may-make-some-places-too-hot-to-live/
#Climate #WetBulb #humidity