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Doesn't it? The key point though is that this is wet bulb temperatures. Today, there aren't many areas of the globe where that is experienced. "A sustained wet
by FooHentai 8y ago
Doesn't it? The key point though is that this is wet bulb temperatures. Today, there aren't many areas of the globe where that is experienced.
"A sustained wet-bulb temperature exceeding 35 °C (95 °F) is likely to be fatal even to fit and healthy people, unclothed in the shade next to a fan; at this temperature our bodies switch from shedding heat to the environment, to gaining heat from it."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Wet-bulb_temperature_and_health https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature#Wet-bulb_...
"Peak heat stress, quantified by the wet-bulb temperature TW, is surprisingly similar across diverse climates today. TW never exceeds 31 °C. Any exceedence of 35 °C for extended periods should induce hyperthermia in humans and other mammals, as dissipation of metabolic heat becomes impossible. While this never happens now, it would begin to occur with global-mean warming of about 7 °C, calling the habitability of some regions into question. With 11–12 °C warming, such regions would spread to encompass the majority of the human population as currently distributed."
https://www.pnas.org/content/107/21/9552.full https://www.pnas.org/content/107/21/9552.full
- yesenadam 8y agoHmm yeah thanks, hadn't heard of that. e.g. "An example of the threshold at which the human body is no longer able to cool itself and begins to overheat is a humidity level of 50% and a high heat of 46 °C (115 °F), as this would indicate a wet-bulb temperature of 35 °C (95 °F)." (wikip)