The Wet-Bulb Bottleneck; No, We Won't "Adapt", And Neither Will Lot Of Other Life Forms

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5. This is good on temperature, but there are other factors trying to kill us.

This is an interesting article, but it mostly just concentrates on the environmental temperature and humidity that people can exist.

An important point was that wet bulb temperatures are the measured with a thermometer bulb in literally a wet sock as swung through the air. And that people are not wet socks, but working moving beings, internally generating heat, not in a constant wind.

But in addition to this it does not discuss much about the loss of the total HABITAT for humans. The total environment, water, temperature extremes, rain/drought, insects/diseases, fires, and the ability to grow and store FOOD.
This story also still lengthens out the time frame of climate change to decades. Very few even mention the possibility of an abrupt warming from the Arctic melting.