Penn State researchers found that the maximum wet-bulb temperature humans can endure is lower than previously thought — about 31°C wet-bulb or 87°F at 100% humidity — even for young, healthy subjects. The temperature for older populations, who are more vulnerable to heat, is likely even lower.
Wet bulb will kill most of us, then there's excess CO2 in the air which start to affect the brain at about 600ppm (office buildings already sometimes get as high as 2000ppm at current 460ish levels), there's famine, flooding, fire, pandemics, etc. People who think we're gonna survive this are being very optimistic.
I agree, I think humans are a bit too adaptable to have complete human extinction, but it could totally be like a few hundred people living in absolute hellish conditions
Wet bulb will kill most of us, then there's excess CO2 in the air which start to affect the brain at about 600ppm (office buildings already sometimes get as high as 2000ppm at current 460ish levels), there's famine, flooding, fire, pandemics, etc. People who think we're gonna survive this are being very optimistic.
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I agree, I think humans are a bit too adaptable to have complete human extinction, but it could totally be like a few hundred people living in absolute hellish conditions
That etcetera is doing a lot of work, friend.🤷♂️
Nuclear war.
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:so-true: it's just like the book of genesis!
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We're not yet to the kind of temperature rises that are extinction events. We're still just at mass die-off and global collapse levels.