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  1. @The14

    "There is a fundamental limit to the body’s coping ability: it is a fixed goalpost.

    Research in 2010 demonstrated that a ‘wet-bulb’ temperature of 35 degrees Celsius or higher would make it impossible for humans to exhaust metabolic heat, due to our fixed core body temperature."

    A staggeringly high number of humans will die in the run up to this goalpost.

  2. @The14

    "There is a fundamental limit to the body’s coping ability: it is a fixed goalpost.

    Research in 2010 demonstrated that a ‘wet-bulb’ temperature of 35 degrees Celsius or higher would make it impossible for humans to exhaust metabolic heat, due to our fixed core body temperature."

    A staggeringly high number of humans will die in the run up to this goalpost.

    #Environment #Health #Science #ExtremeHeat #Heat #WetBulb #HeatWaveRisk #ClimateThreat #HeatDanger #Humans

  3. @The14

    "There is a fundamental limit to the body’s coping ability: it is a fixed goalpost.

    Research in 2010 demonstrated that a ‘wet-bulb’ temperature of 35 degrees Celsius or higher would make it impossible for humans to exhaust metabolic heat, due to our fixed core body temperature."

    A staggeringly high number of humans will die in the run up to this goalpost.

    #Environment #Health #Science #ExtremeHeat #Heat #WetBulb #HeatWaveRisk #ClimateThreat #HeatDanger #Humans

  4. @The14

    "There is a fundamental limit to the body’s coping ability: it is a fixed goalpost.

    Research in 2010 demonstrated that a ‘wet-bulb’ temperature of 35 degrees Celsius or higher would make it impossible for humans to exhaust metabolic heat, due to our fixed core body temperature."

    A staggeringly high number of humans will die in the run up to this goalpost.

    #Environment #Health #Science #ExtremeHeat #Heat #WetBulb #HeatWaveRisk #ClimateThreat #HeatDanger #Humans