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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] 2 points 2 weeks 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.

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