@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.

#Environment #Health #Science #ExtremeHeat #Heat #WetBulb #HeatWaveRisk #ClimateThreat #HeatDanger #Humans

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.

https://www.omnicalculator.com/physics/wet-bulb

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/

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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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

> 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