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The world is heating up, which’s going to have severe health effects.
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In 2010, scientists at Purdue University and the University of New South Wales started an examination into a macabre concern: What’s the upper temperature level limitation at which people can endure? The response, according to their estimations, was 95 degrees Fahrenheit (35 degrees Celsius) at 100 % humidity– a “wet bulb” temperature level that sets an outright “unsurvivable” limit for the body.
Beyond this temperature level, a waterfall of permanent physiological procedures starts, sending out organs into shock, triggering blood to embolisms and ending in unavoidable death.
Stephanie Pappas is a contributing author for Live Science, covering subjects varying from geoscience to archaeology to the human brain and habits. She was formerly a senior author for Live Science however is now a freelancer based in Denver, Colorado, and routinely adds to Scientific American and The Monitor, the month-to-month publication of the American Psychological Association. Stephanie got a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of South Carolina and a graduate certificate in science interaction from the University of California, Santa Cruz.
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