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2017 Aug 3, 7:23pm
Relax guys. By the late 21st century we won't have pollution. Science can solve all problems.
95F & 100% humidity,sounds interesting.
Man can survive about 6 hours?
"A wet-bulb temperature gives a useful indication of the degree of heat stress likely to be caused by ambient conditions. A wet-bulb temperature exceeding 35 °C (95 °F) for an extended period can be fatal even to fit and healthy people. At this temperature the human body switches from shedding heat to the environment, to gaining heat from it. So a temperature of 35 °C is the threshold beyond which the body is no longer able to cool itself.
https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-practical-meaning-of-wet-bulb-temperature-for-a-human-animal-body
http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/8/e1603322
The risk associated with any climate change impact reflects intensity of natural hazard and level of human vulnerability. Previous work has shown that a wet-bulb temperature of 35°C can be considered an upper limit on human survivability. On the basis of an ensemble of high-resolution climate change simulations, we project that extremes of wet-bulb temperature in South Asia are likely to approach and, in a few locations, exceed this critical threshold by the late 21st century under the business-as-usual scenario of future greenhouse gas emissions. The most intense hazard from extreme future heat waves is concentrated around densely populated agricultural regions of the Ganges and Indus river basins. Climate change, without mitigation, presents a serious and unique risk in South Asia, a region inhabited by about one-fifth of the global human population, due to an unprecedented combination of severe natural hazard and acute vulnerability.