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      What’s a wet bulb event? (I know I can search it, but I wanted to engage here)

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          you have both enlightened me and scared the shit out of me at the same time!

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          Thanks! I think there’re places in my country (Spain) that are super close to having those kinds of events. That’s scary af

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        Pretty sure they mean an event where temperature and humidity combine to the point that the human body is unable to cool itself. So your body temperature would rise and if it got high enough would kill you.

        You would need some external source of cooling like cool water or air conditioning. Fans wouldn’t do any good.

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          I live in a place where this happens every other summer already, people unfortunately are so propaganda-ized or beaten they don’t care and deny climate change. This current heatwave is brutal, most buildings don’t even have ACs.

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            I live in India where temperatures are quite high and run slightly higher each year. I also know quite a few people who believe climate change is a hoax and post that kind of stuff on Facebook, WhatsApp etc.

            I was talking to one such relative’s father recently and he was complaining that this guy turns the air conditioner on right when he comes to visit his parents and only turns it off when he leaves weeks later.

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      It won’t be too long now. Apparently wet bulb temperatures of ~35°C have already been recorded, but only for a few hours. With the rate of warming we will soon have events that last the ~6 hours it takes to kill a healthy human at these temperatures

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      In 2021, southern British Columbia was exposed to temperatures of 40C and above for a week straight - June 25 to July 1st, and a reportedly 719 people died.

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      It’s already too late. It makes me wonder whether collectively humans have free will.