New heat record in Italy 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 Fahrenheit)

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210811-new-heat-record-in-italy-as-lucifer-sweeps-in

by underscore_ku • 5 years ago

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NotSwift• 5 years ago

This is a temperature at which humans normally cannot survive. It is yet another example why climate change is not just about raising the average temperature by one degree.

SCUSKU• 5 years ago

The 1-3 degrees Celsius warming always seems to underplay the implications of what is to come. I wish there were some other number that would jump out and be more alarming.

bell-cot2• 5 years ago

No idea if or how it might be calculated, but "Percent of humanity who will need to move elsewhere. Either because their old homes are now too besieged by flood / fire / drought / extreme weather to be viable any more, or because the agricultural areas previously providing them with food are similarly besieged."

pengaru2• 5 years ago

If the ambient humidity is low, 120F outside of direct sunlight is very survivable. Provided you can stay hydrated and don't wear sweat-trapping clothes...

RGamma2• 5 years ago

Survivable doesn't mean civilization can continue. Will we stay holed up in our cool bunkers until the heat passes?

I guess no explaining can do what reality forces. The lung cancer patient that stops smoking...

peytn• 5 years ago

I don’t think that’s true because we seem to be adapted to life in parts of Africa where temperatures sometimes exceed that mark.

aldanor• 5 years ago

What matters for survival is wetbulb temperature (35C wetbulb limit IIRC). I would expect humidity in Palermo to be much higher than that in midland Africa / in a desert.

lazyjones• 5 years ago

Call me skeptical.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1540_European_drought

frankbreetz• 5 years ago

>For eleven months

Not even close to the same thing, there has been a long term trend of increasing temperatures.

New heat record in Italy 48.8 degrees Celsius (119.8 Fahrenheit)

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