When the air is hot and humid, you just die. That's kind of a big problem.

If you’ve never heard of wet bulb events, get ready for a new level of climate anxiety. When the air kills you!

  • pkulak@beehaw.org
    1·
    7 months ago

    our bodies transfer heat from our body to water on the surface of our skin, water that then evaporates, resulting in heat loss from our body

    Not a great explanation. Sweat is obviously body temperature, so heat doesn’t move into it. Unless it turns into water vapor, which is a process that requires quite a lot of heat energy, cooling the remaining liquid or the surface.

    • TheCompassMaker@beehaw.org
      8·
      7 months ago

      I don’t see anything wrong with this explanation? Sweat (or more pendantically the water in sweat) does evaporate and that effect does remove total heat from the body.