Obviously, a 1.5F increase in the global temperature since 1850 has made things super dangerous
The temperature the human body cannot survive
Scientists have identified the maximum mix of heat and humidity a human body can survive.
Even a healthy young person will die after enduring six hours of 35-degree Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) warmth when coupled with 100 percent humidity, but new research shows that threshold could be significantly lower.
At this point sweat — the body’s main tool for bringing down its core temperature — no longer evaporates off the skin, eventually leading to heatstroke, organ failure and death.
This critical limit, which occurs at 35 degrees of what is known “wet bulb temperature”, has only been breached around a dozen times, mostly in South Asia and the Persian Gulf, Colin Raymond of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory told AFP.
None of those instances lasted more than two hours, meaning there have never been any “mass mortality events” linked to this limit of human survival, said Raymond, who led a major study on the subject.
So, it doesn’t happen often or long, at least during the Modern Warm Period. We have no way of knowing about it during the previous Holocene warm periods. But, good news, things are actually much, much worse
But extreme heat does not need to be anywhere near that level to kill people, and everyone has a different threshold depending on their age, health and other social and economic factors, experts say.
Surely they’ll tell us what that temperature is, right?
The theorised human survival limit of 35C wet bulb temperature represents 35C of dry heat as well as 100 percent humidity — or 46C at 50 percent humidity.
To test this limit, researchers at Pennsylvania State University in the United States measured the core temperatures of young, healthy people inside a heat chamber.
They found that participants reached their “critical environmental limit” — when their body could not stop their core temperature from continuing to rise — at 30.6C wet bulb temperature, well below the previously theorised 35C.
The team estimated that it would take between five to seven hours before such conditions would reach “really, really dangerous core temperatures,” Daniel Vecellio, who worked on the research, told AFP.
OK, then get your ass inside. It’s the 21st Century, we have measures to deal with this. Also, we’re doomed at 87F. Also, notice the use of estimated and theorized. They didn’t actually run through the testing. Further, the whole line about “everyone has a different threshold.” It’s all about the scaremongering. And the sweet, sweet, government cash for the study.
Certainly not the hottest July in the US:
July 2023 (1.71°F warmer than the 1991-2000 average) was cooler than July 2006 (2.24°F warmer), July 2012 (2.112°F warmer) and July 2022 (2.077°F warmer).
If every emission warms the planet, then why was July 2023 0.53°F cooler than… pic.twitter.com/ewtAKg3ath
— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) August 3, 2023
In March, SSG Pico returned from her second deployment to Saudi Arabia (about a month) and then Kuwait. She has now had the great pleasure of spending two summers in Kuwait, where 120º F is a normal daily high, and the 130s are hardly unheard of. Yet people have been living in Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and Iraq for thousands of years, long before air conditioning was ever developed.
People live in the equatorial jungles in Africa and South America, where it regularly gets into the upper 90s, and the humidity is extremely high, yet human beings survive there, some in very primitive conditions even today.
Kuwait has never reached 130F at any weather station in Kuwait.
6 years ago it reached 129F for 1 day in a part of Kuwait where no one lives.
As usual H misses the entire point. Way to go H. We are glad that you saw the tree and as usual missed the forest.
You leftists couldn’t be more obtuse if you tried.
Trump just indicted for the Maui wildfires…
Of course they forgot to say that cold kills 9 to 20 times what heat does, depending on the study. I wonder why…?
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I hate to break it to these crackpots but I was in the jungles of Vietnam for nearly a year barring a few days here and there sprinkled in sitting inside an A/C hooch and it was almost always 100 percent humidity and pretty damn hot. 85-100 degrees most days barring the Monsoon season.
I survived. Was miserable and if it wasn’t skeeters getting me non stop it was leeches sitting on elephant grass like little fingers seeking heat to pass them by and latch on to you. Every morning after a night in hell we would have to strip down and remove about a dozen leeches from our bodies.
So I would disagree with this assessment………Even a healthy young person will die after enduring six hours of 35-degree Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) warmth when coupled with 100 percent humidity, but new research shows that threshold could be significantly lower.
The significantly lower threshold is what I take umbrage with. It was easily 85-90 with 100 percent humidity nearly every day for at least 6 months in Vietnam when I was there.
Welcome to Florida where the heat and humidity run neck and neck all “Summer”. The season of heat and humidity. Nothing new and nothing changes just more bullshit from the mainstream media