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People certainly die during heat waves, on the Subcontinent and elsewhere. High heat at high humidity is dangerous to endure.

However, there is no historical record of the wet bulb temperature outdoors exceeding human body temperature, anywhere, ever. So far.

Which is what it would take for the human body to be unable to remove excess heat in any fashion.




The current record of 36.6 seems like it would be close enough to cause major issues.


> However, there is no historical record of the wet bulb temperature outdoors

That’s not really saying much. The historical record is vanishingly small.


See also: chapter one of Kim Stanley Robinson’s The Ministry for the Future.




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