clearly the author of this tweet has never been camping in the summer. you don’t die just because you’re outside with no AC. if that were true none of this ever would’ve gotten built because AC is a relatively recent invention. the Southeast certainly was hot and humid before climate change; and yes now it’s getting worse, but this take is pretty sensational.
you don’t die just because you’re outside with no AC
At wet-bulb temperatures of 35 °C or above you do, actually, if you’re exposed to them for longer. Your body can then no longer cool by sweating and just keeps getting heated up by the environment. And old people in partiuclar do regularly die due to heat even at much lower wet-bulb temperaturs.
clearly the author of this tweet has never been camping in the summer. you don’t die just because you’re outside with no AC. if that were true none of this ever would’ve gotten built because AC is a relatively recent invention. the Southeast certainly was hot and humid before climate change; and yes now it’s getting worse, but this take is pretty sensational.
At wet-bulb temperatures of 35 °C or above you do, actually, if you’re exposed to them for longer. Your body can then no longer cool by sweating and just keeps getting heated up by the environment. And old people in partiuclar do regularly die due to heat even at much lower wet-bulb temperaturs.