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For the first time, humans were exposed to a deadly combination of heat and humidity. (www.abc.net.au)

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

@poVoq If a person ever visited a turkish/steam sauna, then this this is crystal clear. Nobody can survive several hours in it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

This is not a case of scientists learning something stupidly obvious. It IS a stupid article that buries the relevant info. But the take-away is that the study revises the deadliness of temperatures downwards—we can expect people to die at lower temps than the wet-bulb benchmark.