Here's the short version:
Wet-bulb weather is when, because of a combination of humidity and heat, you can't naturally cool off with things like sweat.
There are certain combinations where the weather only needs to be 25.8C for a health younger person, or 21.9C for an elderly person for "wet-bulb" to be achieved.
Climate change is real, and it's causing more instances of "wet-bulb" weather.
Outside activities may not be possible in the summer in certain parts of the world, people will die, the rich will move.

[–] CyberMonkey404@lemmy.ml 22 points 2 months ago (4 children)

only needs to be 25.8C for a health younger person, or 21.9C for an elderly person

That's disturbingly low

[–] admin@lemmy.haley.io 22 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

It’s also at 100% humidity in case that wasn’t clear.

Edit: ok so what he posted wasn’t wrong but the study said that it could be as low as that for some groups of people. For the average person it’s almost 10 degrees C higher which is lower than it used to be.

However for heat sensitive people (not sure what that means) it can be disturbingly low

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

So it’s more like ~35C, but it used to be 40? Is that because of constant heat exposure? Like, is my heat tolerance better in the winter?

[–] admin@lemmy.haley.io 5 points 2 months ago

It seems like it used to be 35° but now it’s ~34°.

I don’t have access to the actually study but I would hypothesize that it’s likely because we are seeing more studies about things like this and as we collect more data that’s changing these values to be closer to what we see in the real world.

[–] Petter1@lemm.ee 1 points 2 months ago

Meaning you can kill elderly people if you set up air humidifier everywhere 😮🤔 even at normal 22C

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 months ago

so are my morals

[–] whostosay@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

can we get these temperatures in freedom degrees?

[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Depends on which articulation, but I'd say at most 6

[–] idiomaddict@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago

25.8, 21.9

Divide by 5, multiply by 9, and add 32.

roughly 78.5 and 71.5

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