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“The situation is so dire, that you need to pay us money if you want to read this article!!!”
That’s the neat part, I don’t
Full article:
Humanity’s superpower is sweating—but rising heat could be our kryptonite, and an average temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels could bring regular, fatal heat waves to large parts of the planet, says Tom Matthews, a senior lecturer in environmental geography at King’s College London.
“We have evolved to cope with the most extreme heat and humidity the planet can throw at us,” he explains. But when our core temperature gets to about 42 degrees Celsius (around 107.5 degrees Fahrenheit), people face heat stroke and probable death as the body strains to keep cool and the heart works harder, inducing heart attacks.
Matthews cites an example from his home country, the UK. In the summer of 2022, the UK broke its high temperature record, surpassing 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). Scientists estimate there were roughly 3,500 heat-associated deaths that summer in the UK. Across Europe, they estimate high heat caused more than 60,000 deaths.
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“At 1.5 degrees Celsius of warming, the likes of Lagos, Karachi, [and] Shanghai start to experience heat waves exceeding our limit. At 2 degrees Celsius, the events increase at least 10 times more often, and if we get to 8 degrees Celsius, a large fraction of the Earth’s surface would be too hot for our physiology and would not be habitable,” he says.
Air conditioning and heat-escape rooms would help, but we might need to abandon intense outdoor work such as rice farming in hotter regions. And these solutions will need to be able to meet demand. “The infrastructure must be able to withstand the surges when everyone turns on the air conditioning, and must be able to withstand hurricanes or floods,” he says.
Our best hope in the face of inevitable rises in heat? Cooperation. “We’ve built forecasting systems that will warn us when disasters are incoming by working together at enormous scale. We must continue to do the same.”
104?
Laughs in South West American.
But seriously. Can we just not? I’d like to actually have a retirement. Or nanobot immortality. Why can’t we live in the cool timeline?
At 80% humidity? That’s a big negatori, rubber duck.
The outdated power grids will be next.
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.
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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.
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.
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
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.
