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Abnormal Heatwaves And The Wet Bulb Effect Are Causing Specialists To Speak Up About How Hazardous Such Extremes Can Be To Humans

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Community member What the Pacific Northwest area of North America experienced just a few days ago raised quite a few concerns and 'climate change' might have echoed in quite a few people's minds.

Parts of the US and Canada were scorching in a heatwave that has topped all the records so far. Rob Carlmark, meteorologist in California for ABC 10, shared a concerning post on his Facebook page 'More than Sunshine.' And it is all about how horrifying and unusual the heatwave is. And he is raising awareness about this phenomenon that will probably re-occur again.

This frying heat has also prompted another climate expert, Matthew Lewis, to speak up on his Twitter account about 'wet bulb' temperatures and how dangerous they are. And some people online are admitting to being unaware of this term and how concerning and alarming it actually is. More info: Twitter Facebook

The latest heatwave in the Pacific Northwest of the US and Canada sparked a few climate experts to speak up about the concerning temperatures

Image credits: Rob Carlmark In his post, Rob Carlmark stated that using the word 'horrifying' is the most accurate when describing what has been happening in this time in history, which no one really wants to repeat itself.

He starts by explaining how different regions have their respective climate that has been meticulously observed by humans over a period of time, including the vegetation, geology and other geographical matters.

Rob Carlmark meteorologist in California stated that this heatwave is nothing less than horrifying and explained why

Carl shared that such anomalies like temperatures reaching highs of 110 in Portland and Seattle shouldn't really occur.

He also highlighted how unbelievable it was for weather experts to see such numbers: 'When the computer models spit these numbers out last week, a lot of meteorologists dismissed them right away as a computer model problem.' The meteorologist points out that 'millions of people are in the middle of a life-changing event' which could happen again as, unfortunately, people are currently going through it. He shared that air conditioning, although it is a solution for keeping cool in such extreme heat, will not help to change the environment.

Image credits: Rob Carlmark Matthew Lewis, who is a clean energy and climate tech/policy veteran, following the recent heatwave, dropped another term to add to your vocabulary: 'wet bulb' temperature. In his initial post on Twitter with over 20k likes, he opened a discussion about human survivability and habitability. The thread that he shared is a basic one to understand what the 'wet bulb' effect is and what is so scary about it.

The unprecedented heatwave got another climate change professional to warn everyone about the wet bulb temperature and what it does to humans

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He explained how the wet bulb example is used to describe what happens to the human body as well

Image credits: mateosfo Turns out that 'wet bulb' temperature is actually the temperature+relative humidity at which water does not evaporate off a 'wet' thermometer bulb. Matthew explains that the air has so much humidity that evaporation does not cool the bulb anymore, making it get even hotter.

This explains why humans feel that humid heat feels worse and it is not as bearable as dry heat even though the latter would have a numerically higher temperature. Image credits: mateosfo

Apparently if the heat is dry humans can survive quite high temperatures

Image credits: mateosfo Image credits: mateosfo The climate expert stated that dry air has more capacity to absorb moisture, which in this case is sweat, which the human body uses to cool down when it's too hot. Of course, 120 and up in a dry heat means potential death from hyperthermia for people in at-risk groups.

What is more dangerous is humid air, where the body's sweat can no longer evaporate, therefore causing the body to overheat, just like the 'wet' thermometer bulb. The 'wet bulb' condition can be fatal to humans in temperatures as low as the mid-80s.

Image credits: mateosfo

Matthew also explained that wet bulb temperatures were extremely rare in the past and how important it is for the weather forecasters to start announcing the Human Heat Index

Image credits: mateosfo Image credits: mateosfo What Matthew called out is that it would be useful to be informed about the wet bulb temperature or Human Heat Index and make it public knowledge during weather forecasts as 'wet bulb' temperatures were quite rare in the last 40 years, but now they seem to be multiplying in different locations, making it more dangerous for people to live in such weather conditions. Image credits: mateosfo

And the scariest thing is that there is a chance that some people will have to move from their current locations

Image credits: mateosfo Image credits: mateosfo His guess is that many people might have to move and try to adapt, but it might be hard. Matthew says that if we take action now, there is a chance to save these sorts of places for future generations.

But are we really taking action? Image credits: mateosfo

And this is what Twitter users were commenting about the wet bulb temperatures and the unbearable humidity

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Monty Python´s "Eric the Viking" was supposed to be funny, not a prophecy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY-HOYTz-rs&ab_channel=SoCalClockDoc 15 15points reply Dark Pigeon Dark Pigeon Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Even longer. As soon as the Industrial Revolution started they were warned more than once about the horrible effects for the future. But humans can and will never be able to learn to go for the long-term-gain, which kinda means 'well, it is okay for now.

The next gen can fix it' . Every generation has been fighting so f*****g hard to change things around. But as long as the big companies, political parties, and anyone that ..

sorry for saying it like this... 'matters' who can truly cause a change WONT DO IT!

we are f****d. We really and truly are f****d.

But at least we get to die in our 'home made' apocolips! so.. thats a thing 13 13points reply Load More Replies...

H Edwards H Edwards Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago The first recorded mention of man-made climate change due to emissions was over 100 years ago. 3 3points reply Leo Domitrix Leo Domitrix Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Yes, but specific links to fossil fuels were not made readily known until later. Readily known as in, "general public knowledge".

0 0points reply Kathryn Baylis Kathryn Baylis Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago (edited) I remember the teacher mentioning something about fossil fuels in my 7th grade science class, so 1972-1973. He said researchers had predicted that, since fossil fuels were a finite resource—-only a limited number of dinosaurs and forests died to create them—-and that within 40 years, they’d become harder to locate, more dangerous to drill for, and way dirtier when brought up, so more expensive to refine.

He also mentioned how bad the pollution they created was for the environment, and that it had the capability of altering the climate. I clearly remember him saying this was why the US should start investing in alternate energy sources, like solar. You can’t tell me no one but Big Oil and the politicians in their back pockets knew anything about this until recently.

It’s been almost 50 years since that science class, and my teacher was just a small town junior high* science teacher, not some bigwig in the scientific community who was privy to top secret information. (*It’s now called middle school, except a junior high school housed 7th, 8th, and 9th grade.) 1 1point reply Bee / she/her Bee / she/her Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago It's all so scary, how the world might become uninhabitable soon, and nothing is done.

What can we do, as regular people? It's not like turning off the lights for a minute is a super big change. Sure, we realize it's terrible, but I haven't found anything better to do than panic.

Genuine question, what can we do? 9 9points reply Stephanie IV Stephanie IV Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Vote.

Hold your political parties accountable. Join fridays for future. Learn to live with less.

Don’t eat meat. Think globally, act locally. Inform your peers.

Form climate saver groups. Resist plastic. PRAY.

13 13points reply Load More Replies... K Witmer K Witmer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Even a vegan diet is killing the rainforest bc of soy consumption.

It all seems so hopeless bc the people that cause pretty much all the damage are the 1% and they do not care bc they are making money. 4 4points reply Fred Van Der Zee Fred Van Der Zee Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) Only 6-7% of the world's soy production is directly consumed by humans.

20% is for soya oil and the remaining 73% is fed to animals, both for meat and dairy. Keep in mind that soy for human consumption is not only from the Amazon but mostly grown locally, especially in Asia. European biological/ecological grown soy is mostly from Italy and France but there are also other countries producing it.

2 2points reply Martha Meyer Martha Meyer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago K Witmer, the soy production destroying the rainforest is almost exclusively cattle feed. So going into meat production! 1 1point reply miss miss miss miss Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden.

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-5 -5points reply Leo Domitrix Leo Domitrix Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago VOTE. Do not re-elect failures. Participate.

Yes, I do "little" by cleaning trash out of the local creek, but when people see me hauling that bag of trash out (most of which is recyclable plastic)? About half thank me and/or ask what they can do, b/c that's *concrete*. Weather-stripping DIY.

Insulate attics. Eat locally grown food.

Every small thing adds up until it's BIG if we ALL do something. Third generation eco-nut.

And proud of it. 4 4points reply Lauren Caswell Lauren Caswell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) I agree with stephanie.

For meat: we have some species we have domesticated to a point they cant live without humans, so we owe them a duty of care (sheep etc). But farming less, using all of the animals, using bugs as a source of protein. These are great ways of reducing carbon stress on the atmosphere.

Use produce that's local and/or in season. The issue here can be money, as it impacts the ability to have options like this. But even small moves like bringing your own reusable bags to the store, low energy bulbs, if you have a garden or patio, planting wildflowers etc to support the micro organisms and insects in urban areas.

Use slightly less washing powder: we have been taught by commercials to use much more than is needed. A big one is microplastics from artificial fabrics: apparently you can get microfilters for your washing machine but I don't know much about that yet.

3 3points reply M O'Connell M O'Connell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Something which is good to do as an individual is investigate ways your lifestyle might be impacting energy usage that are something you can easily change. I discovered that my tv and set-top-box draw 8W when powered off, 24/7/365 and a responsible for nearly 70kWh of electrical consumption over one year. I put a switch on them and now they're only on an hour or two per day.

That's I don't have quantifiable numbers for this one, but I turned on 'economy' mode in my fridge, which disables a small heater strip that prevents condensation between the doors. I wipe it off now and then instead.

2 2points reply Frankenfrog Frankenfrog Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago You can start by not having children. Minimizing your imprint on earth and not forcibly subject someone to a world that is going to shits.

0 0points reply Larisa Migachyov Larisa Migachyov Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Nothing. Nothing you, as an individual, can do will change this one whit.

You could kill yourself and disappear from the face of the earth and the problem will still continue. The entities that can fix the problem are the big corporations and governments. We can't do a thing.

All we can do is try to survive. 0 0points reply miss miss miss miss Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden.

Click here to view. Hide under a rock -15 -15points reply K Witmer K Witmer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago You first please 1 1point reply Neil Bidle Neil Bidle Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Stop living in deserts, taking every last drop of fresh water from underground, and running A/C to keep your house like a fridge.

No other animal forces their environment to work for them, and every human society in the past that has tried it, has pushed nature over the edge and collapsed. How long before we've gone too far.

Crypto currency needs to be banned too; often used for crime, and the massive server farms drink power and generate heat on a Las Vegas level 6 6points reply cassiushumanmother cassiushumanmother Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I don't think that Neil was thinking about Egypt or other deserts but rather western societies building and creating cities in deserts like Las Vegas but with a western style. There was a post about architecture and a picture of a neighborhood in a highly warm country like Egypt and the comments were "EW, there is no lawn and no spaces between buildings...".

Actually those countries do that to create shadow and air flow since forever. Unlike westerners who create cities in the desert but still want their precious lawns and outdoor space and overuse ACs.

Meanwhile moucharabieh/machrabiyyah (a kind of wooden lattice) exists since ancient times and they are highly effective green AC's, often connected to a basin of water, in a patio to have shadow and build effectively through houses to create a flow of fresh air. No bay windows in old arabian buildings, they were actually working with their environnement and not against it.

I visited a lot of those buildings and they are very fresh. moucharabi...c820b4.jpg 1 1point reply Load More Replies...

cassiushumanmother cassiushumanmother Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago The Ben Youssef school in Marrakech is a perfect example of how to build a ecofriendly fresh builing in the middle of a desert. High thick walls, no windows facing outdoor, just machrabiyyah to create air flow, several pieces of water through the building, a lot of machrabiyyahs through it to let the fresh air flow.

Built in the XIVth century. The freshness in there is just so good when it's like an oven outside.

Marrakech-...dd9535.jpg 0 0points reply Neil Bidle Neil Bidle Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Perfectly said, thank you for explaining it better than I did :) 0 0points reply cassiushumanmother cassiushumanmother Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago You perfectly explained it already. Some people just pretend not to understand when things doesn't fit their lifestyle choices.

I just pressed on a nail that has already been hammered in. 0 0points reply Heather G Heather G Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Not everyone in the world can "stop living in the desert".

1. Moving is a somewhat wealthy person solution. 2.

There are whole countries that are deserts. Are you expecting them to change nationalies? It is never so easy.

1 1point reply Bacony Cakes Bacony Cakes Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Egypt: Am i a joke to you? 0 0points reply Load More Comments POST Ray Heap Ray Heap Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) What bugs me is that the effects of burning fossil fuels has been known since 1977, more than enough time to do something about it. Monty Python´s "Eric the Viking" was supposed to be funny, not a prophecy https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rY-HOYTz-rs&ab_channel=SoCalClockDoc 15 15points reply Dark Pigeon Dark Pigeon Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Even longer.

As soon as the Industrial Revolution started they were warned more than once about the horrible effects for the future. But humans can and will never be able to learn to go for the long-term-gain, which kinda means 'well, it is okay for now. The next gen can fix it' .

Every generation has been fighting so f*****g hard to change things around. But as long as the big companies, political parties, and anyone that ..

sorry for saying it like this... 'matters' who can truly cause a change WONT DO IT!

we are f****d. We really and truly are f****d.

But at least we get to die in our 'home made' apocolips! so.. thats a thing 13 13points reply Load More Replies...

H Edwards H Edwards Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago The first recorded mention of man-made climate change due to emissions was over 100 years ago. 3 3points reply Leo Domitrix Leo Domitrix Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Yes, but specific links to fossil fuels were not made readily known until later. Readily known as in, "general public knowledge".

0 0points reply Kathryn Baylis Kathryn Baylis Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago (edited) I remember the teacher mentioning something about fossil fuels in my 7th grade science class, so 1972-1973. He said researchers had predicted that, since fossil fuels were a finite resource—-only a limited number of dinosaurs and forests died to create them—-and that within 40 years, they’d become harder to locate, more dangerous to drill for, and way dirtier when brought up, so more expensive to refine.

He also mentioned how bad the pollution they created was for the environment, and that it had the capability of altering the climate. I clearly remember him saying this was why the US should start investing in alternate energy sources, like solar.

You can’t tell me no one but Big Oil and the politicians in their back pockets knew anything about this until recently. It’s been almost 50 years since that science class, and my teacher was just a small town junior high* science teacher, not some bigwig in the scientific community who was privy to top secret information. (*It’s now called middle school, except a junior high school housed 7th, 8th, and 9th grade.) 1 1point reply Bee / she/her Bee / she/her Community Member • points posts comments upvotes 1 year ago It's all so scary, how the world might become uninhabitable soon, and nothing is done.

What can we do, as regular people? It's not like turning off the lights for a minute is a super big change.

Sure, we realize it's terrible, but I haven't found anything better to do than panic. Genuine question, what can we do? 9 9points reply Stephanie IV Stephanie IV Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Vote.

Hold your political parties accountable. Join fridays for future.

Learn to live with less. Don’t eat meat. Think globally, act locally.

Inform your peers. Form climate saver groups.

Resist plastic. PRAY. 13 13points reply Load More Replies...

K Witmer K Witmer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Even a vegan diet is killing the rainforest bc of soy consumption. It all seems so hopeless bc the people that cause pretty much all the damage are the 1% and they do not care bc they are making money. 4 4points reply Fred Van Der Zee Fred Van Der Zee Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) Only 6-7% of the world's soy production is directly consumed by humans.

20% is for soya oil and the remaining 73% is fed to animals, both for meat and dairy. Keep in mind that soy for human consumption is not only from the Amazon but mostly grown locally, especially in Asia.

European biological/ecological grown soy is mostly from Italy and France but there are also other countries producing it. 2 2points reply Martha Meyer Martha Meyer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago K Witmer, the soy production destroying the rainforest is almost exclusively cattle feed. So going into meat production!

1 1point reply miss miss miss miss Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view. ?

-5 -5points reply Leo Domitrix Leo Domitrix Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago VOTE. Do not re-elect failures. Participate.

Yes, I do "little" by cleaning trash out of the local creek, but when people see me hauling that bag of trash out (most of which is recyclable plastic)? About half thank me and/or ask what they can do, b/c that's *concrete*. Weather-stripping DIY.

Insulate attics. Eat locally grown food.

Every small thing adds up until it's BIG if we ALL do something. Third generation eco-nut. And proud of it.

4 4points reply Lauren Caswell Lauren Caswell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago (edited) I agree with stephanie. For meat: we have some species we have domesticated to a point they cant live without humans, so we owe them a duty of care (sheep etc). But farming less, using all of the animals, using bugs as a source of protein.

These are great ways of reducing carbon stress on the atmosphere. Use produce that's local and/or in season.

The issue here can be money, as it impacts the ability to have options like this. But even small moves like bringing your own reusable bags to the store, low energy bulbs, if you have a garden or patio, planting wildflowers etc to support the micro organisms and insects in urban areas. Use slightly less washing powder: we have been taught by commercials to use much more than is needed.

A big one is microplastics from artificial fabrics: apparently you can get microfilters for your washing machine but I don't know much about that yet. 3 3points reply M O'Connell M O'Connell Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Something which is good to do as an individual is investigate ways your lifestyle might be impacting energy usage that are something you can easily change. I discovered that my tv and set-top-box draw 8W when powered off, 24/7/365 and a responsible for nearly 70kWh of electrical consumption over one year.

I put a switch on them and now they're only on an hour or two per day. That's I don't have quantifiable numbers for this one, but I turned on 'economy' mode in my fridge, which disables a small heater strip that prevents condensation between the doors.

I wipe it off now and then instead. 2 2points reply Frankenfrog Frankenfrog Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago You can start by not having children.

Minimizing your imprint on earth and not forcibly subject someone to a world that is going to shits. 0 0points reply Larisa Migachyov Larisa Migachyov Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Nothing. Nothing you, as an individual, can do will change this one whit.

You could kill yourself and disappear from the face of the earth and the problem will still continue. The entities that can fix the problem are the big corporations and governments. We can't do a thing.

All we can do is try to survive. 0 0points reply miss miss miss miss Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

Hide under a rock -15 -15points reply K Witmer K Witmer Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago You first please 1 1point reply Neil Bidle Neil Bidle Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Stop living in deserts, taking every last drop of fresh water from underground, and running A/C to keep your house like a fridge. No other animal forces their environment to work for them, and every human society in the past that has tried it, has pushed nature over the edge and collapsed. How long before we've gone too far.

Crypto currency needs to be banned too; often used for crime, and the massive server farms drink power and generate heat on a Las Vegas level 6 6points reply cassiushumanmother cassiushumanmother Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago I don't think that Neil was thinking about Egypt or other deserts but rather western societies building and creating cities in deserts like Las Vegas but with a western style. There was a post about architecture and a picture of a neighborhood in a highly warm country like Egypt and the comments were "EW, there is no lawn and no spaces between buildings...".

Actually those countries do that to create shadow and air flow since forever. Unlike westerners who create cities in the desert but still want their precious lawns and outdoor space and overuse ACs. Meanwhile moucharabieh/machrabiyyah (a kind of wooden lattice) exists since ancient times and they are highly effective green AC's, often connected to a basin of water, in a patio to have shadow and build effectively through houses to create a flow of fresh air.

No bay windows in old arabian buildings, they were actually working with their environnement and not against it. I visited a lot of those buildings and they are very fresh.

moucharabi...c820b4.jpg 1 1point reply Load More Replies... cassiushumanmother cassiushumanmother Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago The Ben Youssef school in Marrakech is a perfect example of how to build a ecofriendly fresh builing in the middle of a desert.

High thick walls, no windows facing outdoor, just machrabiyyah to create air flow, several pieces of water through the building, a lot of machrabiyyahs through it to let the fresh air flow. Built in the XIVth century.

The freshness in there is just so good when it's like an oven outside. Marrakech-...dd9535.jpg 0 0points reply Neil Bidle Neil Bidle Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Perfectly said, thank you for explaining it better than I did :) 0 0points reply cassiushumanmother cassiushumanmother Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago You perfectly explained it already.

Some people just pretend not to understand when things doesn't fit their lifestyle choices. I just pressed on a nail that has already been hammered in. 0 0points reply Heather G Heather G Community Member • points posts comments upvotes FollowUnfollow 1 year ago Not everyone in the world can "stop living in the desert".

1. Moving is a somewhat wealthy person solution.

2. There are whole countries that are deserts.

Are you expecting them to change nationalies? It is never so easy.

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