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Obviously, a 1.5F increase in the global temperature since 1850 has made things super dangerous

The temperature the human body cannot survive

Scientists have identified the maximum mix of heat and humidity a human body can survive.

Even a healthy young person will die after enduring six hours of 35-degree Celsius (95 Fahrenheit) warmth when coupled with 100 percent humidity, but new research shows that threshold could be significantly lower.

At this point sweat — the body’s main tool for bringing down its core temperature — no longer evaporates off the skin, eventually leading to heatstroke, organ failure and death.

This critical limit, which occurs at 35 degrees of what is known “wet bulb temperature”, has only been breached around a dozen times, mostly in South Asia and the Persian Gulf, Colin Raymond of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory told AFP.

None of those instances lasted more than two hours, meaning there have never been any “mass mortality events” linked to this limit of human survival, said Raymond, who led a major study on the subject.

So, it doesn’t happen often or long, at least during the Modern Warm Period. We have no way of knowing about it during the previous Holocene warm periods. But, good news, things are actually much, much worse

But extreme heat does not need to be anywhere near that level to kill people, and everyone has a different threshold depending on their age, health and other social and economic factors, experts say.

Surely they’ll tell us what that temperature is, right?

The theorised human survival limit of 35C wet bulb temperature represents 35C of dry heat as well as 100 percent humidity — or 46C at 50 percent humidity.

To test this limit, researchers at Pennsylvania State University in the United States measured the core temperatures of young, healthy people inside a heat chamber.

They found that participants reached their “critical environmental limit” — when their body could not stop their core temperature from continuing to rise — at 30.6C wet bulb temperature, well below the previously theorised 35C.

The team estimated that it would take between five to seven hours before such conditions would reach “really, really dangerous core temperatures,” Daniel Vecellio, who worked on the research, told AFP.

OK, then get your ass inside. It’s the 21st Century, we have measures to deal with this. Also, we’re doomed at 87F. Also, notice the use of estimated and theorized. They didn’t actually run through the testing. Further, the whole line about “everyone has a different threshold.” It’s all about the scaremongering. And the sweet, sweet, government cash for the study.

Certainly not the hottest July in the US:

July 2023 (1.71°F warmer than the 1991-2000 average) was cooler than July 2006 (2.24°F warmer), July 2012 (2.112°F warmer) and July 2022 (2.077°F warmer).

If every emission warms the planet, then why was July 2023 0.53°F cooler than… pic.twitter.com/ewtAKg3ath

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) August 3, 2023

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There’s been no indication as to what caused the massive fire in Hawaii’s area of Maui as of yet, but, that won’t stop the climate cult from involving themselves. They won’t even wait for the death toll (which stands at 36 right now), nor do they care about the suffering of the people there. The NY Times starts it off

How Climate Change Turned Lush Hawaii Into a Tinderbox

The fires in Hawaii would be shocking anywhere — killing at least 36 people, in one of the deadliest wildfires in the United States in modern history. But the devastation is especially striking because of where it happened: In a state defined by its lush vegetation, a far cry from the dry landscape normally associated with fire threats.

The explanation is as straightforward as it is sobering: as the planet heats up, no place is protected from disasters.

The story of this week’s blaze arguably began decades ago, when Hawaii started experiencing a long-term decline in average annual rainfall. Since 1990, rainfall at selected monitoring sites has been 31 percent lower in the wet season, and 6 percent lower in the dry season, according to work published in 2015 by researchers at the University of Hawaii and the University of Colorado.

So, your fault. If only Hawaii had stopped allowing the use of fossil fuels to bring tourists and goods to the islands. And here’s the AP

What’s driving Maui’s devastating fires, and how climate change is fueling those conditions

A dangerous mix of conditions appear to have combined to make the wildfires blazing a path of destruction in Hawaii particularly damaging, including high winds, low humidity and dry vegetation.

Experts also say climate change is increasing the likelihood of more extreme weather events like what’s playing out on the island of Maui, where dozens of people have been killed and a historic tourist town was devastated.

“It’s leading to these unpredictable or unforeseen combinations that we’re seeing right now and that are fueling this extreme fire weather,” said Kelsey Copes-Gerbitz, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of British Columbia’s faculty of forestry. “What these … catastrophic wildfire disasters are revealing is that nowhere is immune to the issue.”

This is being repeated all across the Credentialed Media, and few are showing the least bit of care for the people affected. It’s pure cult activism. As Watts Up With That? points out, the Hawaiian islands are extremely fire prone

There is sufficient precipitation on the lee side of the islands for substantial grasslands to develop, with grasslands increasing during the past several decades as agriculture has declined on Hawaii (e.g., the sugar cane industry is essentially gone).

And, yes, there are unusual dryer and windier conditions at the moment, but, weather is not always consistent. Further

The situation this year on Maui was made even more dangerous on Hawaii because the past half-year was WETTER and COOLER than normal, which enhanced grass growth.   I repeat wetter and cooler. (bold theirs)

The climate is always going to change. The Earth is in a warm period. Not everything needs to involve witchcraft, er, human induced global warming.

Maui wildfires are yet another 'climate scientist failure.

Local government told to expect floods, gets wildfires instead.

"The disaster’s magnitude has stunned the local government. 'We expected rain, we expected floods,' Lt. Gov. Sylvia Luke (D) told reporters Wednesday. 'We…

— Steve Milloy (@JunkScience) August 10, 2023

Funny how the “scientists” are usually wrong.

Read: Climate Cult Immediately Blames Hawaii Wildfires On ‘Climate Change’ »