Abstract
As our planet warms, a critical research question is when and where temperatures will exceed the limits of what the human body can tolerate. Past modeling efforts have investigated the 35°C wet-bulb threshold, proposed as a theoretical upper limit to survivability taking into account physiological and behavioral adaptation. Here, we conduct an extreme value theory analysis of weather station observations and climate model projections to investigate the emergence of an empirically supported heat compensability limit. We show that the hottest parts of the world already experience these heat extremes on a limited basis and that under moderate continued warming parts of every continent, except Antarctica, will see a rapid increase in their extent and frequency. To conclude, we discuss the consequences of the emergence of this noncompensable heat and the need for incorporating different critical thermal limits into heat adaptation planning.
Humanity is counting new ways to predict how they die.
Meanwhile, politicians are trying hard to do nothing for the next 30 years, and then after that do nothing for the next.
Wow they really worked hard in both the paper and the article to make that as boring to read as possible. This is important, and while not the first were hearing of it. The way it’s written no one who has already heard the threat will ever read it.
Are you complaining that a scientific paper isn’t entertaining enough? :s
I kind of felt the same way; posted the news article as a way of breaking down some barriers.
