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Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat (www.wired.com)

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[–] IdiosyncraticIdiot 106 points 5 months ago (3 children)

"The situation is so dire, that you need to pay us money if you want to read this article!!!"

[–] [email protected] 39 points 5 months ago

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago

Not missing anything. The article just says climate change is causing more extreme heat waves, which kill people.

[–] Scubus 5 points 5 months ago

That's the neat part, I don't

[–] [email protected] 19 points 5 months ago

The outdated power grids will be next.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Found the solution, peeps! Capture the heat, transform it to energy, free electricity for everyone!

Now someone go do it.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago

One Dyson sphere, comin’ up

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

This is such a weird take - “Oh man, it’s hot and getting hotter”. I mean - yeah so where’s the, y’know, point? Of the article? It’s not like we didn’t know that, so

An interesting take would be about living underground on renewable energy. But that’s just too far for Wired. And they predicted The Zippies.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

hey, if you can't stand the heat get out of the solar system

[+] [email protected] -40 points 5 months ago (6 children)

You just have to live somewhere with humidity. It doesn't get over 100F, it just gets soupier. It's like living in a hot armpit but at least it doesn't cook your insides.

[–] [email protected] 38 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Please for the love of Satan look up "Heat Index". A 100 degree day with 40% humidity is the same as a 120 degree day in a desert. It will absolutely cook you. A 90/90 is also equivalent to a 120 degree day. A smidge worse actually.

[–] omgitsaheadcrab 18 points 5 months ago

Also wet bulb temperatures

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago

Nothing about this comment is accurate. Maybe where you're at doesn't get above 100f currently, but it can absolutely go above 100f in other areas. As for the humidity, the higher that is the worse people are at regulating temp because sweating stops doing anything. High enough humidity and the temp doesn't even need to hit 100f to kill people readily. The best place to handle high heat is somewhere dry and windy because you can keep chugging water and sweating buckets to maximize evaporative cooling

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 months ago

Yeah, no. Humidity kills faster and at lower temperatures than heat does. The higher the humidity, the less effective sweating is. You can easily die from heat stroke at sub-100°F temperatures if the humidity is high enough.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 months ago

Nah man. When it's 35 degrees here with somewhat high humidity it's absolutely gross and doing anything is a task. When i was in australia in a dryer part, i would be active all day with 40 to almost 50 degrees.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

If you can survive 95F at 100% humidity, you can survive 160F dry heat. No biggie. Roughly around 6 hours until you are dead in both cases though.

"At wet bulb temperatures above 35°C (95F) researchers estimate that even fit people will overheat and potentially die within 6 hours. Although that temperature might seem low, it equates to almost 45°C (113F) at 50% humidity, and what it would feel like 71°C (160F) using the U.S. National Weather Service heat index."

https://www.science.org/content/article/lethal-levels-heat-and-humidity-are-gripping-global-hot-spots-sooner-expected

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Hi there. IRL lived in Taiwan and Vietnam, totalling 13 years. It can and often does get up to 103/4F in absolute humidity (the max that is possible without it being a swimming pool). I know, I know, anecdotal etc etc.