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Try living in Goa in the monsoon season. Or even rewatch Apocalypse Now or basically any Vietnam war movie. I assure you, even 36C/100% is survivable.

• bowsamic 3y ago
  Survivable for many, but still dangerous. 36C is at the limit though. 35C is already dangerous
• pcthrowaway 3y ago
  The science says otherwise, but specific populations are likely better adapted to higher temperatures than the average. An extended period of 36C/100% is going to pose serious danger for most people
  • vouaobrasil 3y ago
    Yes that is true. I am very good at tolerating very high heat. But like you said, past the bulb temperature nothing can save you if you don't have something colder to exchang heat with.
• llamaimperative 3y ago
  The average daily high for Goa in July is like 30C. No, 36C at 100% for an extended period (6-8 hours) is extremely, extremely lethal. Could some people survive it? Probably. But yeah, exaggerating how hot Goa is to dismiss the problem is sort of exactly the problem.
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• coldtea 3y ago
  >I assure you, even 36C/100% is survivable Survivable is a pretty low bar. Also, "survivable but kills babies, the elderly, and the sick in much greater numbers than they die today" doesn't have the same shine as survivable for everybody...
• rokkamokka 3y ago
  It is a guaranteed death if continued for more than a brief while. With evaporative cooling not functioning and the temperature too high, you have no effective way to cool down. Any burning of calories, even without exertion, will heat you up.
• elzbardico 3y ago
  People need sometime to build tolerance to a given temperature. Someone who lives in Manaus or Belem do Para, Brazilian Amazonia would have a hard time getting used even to daily averages around 40F, and vice-versa.
  • ethanbond 3y ago
    No, the temperature being described here is extremely lethal within hours even to heat-adapted people.
    • brabel 3y ago
      While you're correct, I suppose that people who live in already warm areas with high humidity to tend to build more resistance, and would be the "last to die" compared to people from, say, Europe.
      • ethanbond 3y ago
        Well no because people in already warm humid areas will be the first to experience this sort of heat, plus they tend not to have widespread air conditioning, plus they tend not to have the wealth necessary to fix the problem of no widespread air conditioning. The last to die will be the people who are most harmful to the environment on a per-capita basis. Before then, you’ll have socioeconomic disruption in warm countries, creating masses of people fleeing to cooler climates, creating political openings for xenophobes and unsavory characters throughout the western world who will take it as a key goal to preserve our right to pollute, now return to step 1, cycle repeats and amplifies.
      • JumpCrisscross 3y ago
        > people who live in already warm areas with high humidity to tend to build more resistance There is no resistance to chemistry. Your proteins stop folding properly above a certain temperature. Others irreversibly change shape, like an egg’s albumen solidifying. Your body expends extraordinary effort to keep its temperature in a narrow range, one far from the outside temperature, for good reason.