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Adaptation works until the wet bulb temperature is above human body temperature, at which point you'll just slowly broil since you can't lose energy by sweating
by roywiggins 7y ago
Adaptation works until the wet bulb temperature is above human body temperature, at which point you'll just slowly broil since you can't lose energy by sweating. Not very likely to get there in Europe, but other (hotter, wetter) countries may.
- skohan 7y agoI was in Doah recently, and people live almost their entire lives indoors. We even went to the main street market after dark and it was too hot to stand without sweating. It's hard to imagine what would happen there if the temperature were to increase by even a few degrees.
- tripzilch 7y agoI read about this wet bulb temperature thing too, but then I wondered what about saunas? Super humid, can't lose energy by sweating, hotter than human body temperature, yet people stay in them for hours? (Not me personally, I don't like saunas)