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[–] bobby@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

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