Scientists Studying Temperature at Which Humans Spontaneously Die With Increasing Urgency

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4. That is a study you wouldn't want to participate in.

I was a Machinist Mate in the Navy when I was a kid. The MMs run the engine room of the ship and auxiliary equipment. Our working space when we were underway stayed about 120 degrees F. The air was funky with humidity and the smell of oil. We were surrounded by big (insulated) pipes that carried steam at 1200 degrees F. On the other side of the bulkhead (wall) was the boiler room where it got and stayed really hot! A person gradually becomes acclimatized to the extreme temps but it is rough to begin with.

At the beginning of my working career as a new construction plumber we would would do physically strenuous work outside daily in 90-95 degree heat combined with the steamy N. Florida humidity usually running about 85%. It wasn't to bad on a 22 year old, but now as an old man, it would kill me quickly. I believe, from personal experience that old people's cooling systems just don't work as designed.

What is the real killer is when people suddenly have those kinds of temps dumped on them. I have felt really badly for the folks in Canada who have recently been experiencing temps hovering around 110 F. when they are used to 75 F. If you have never been exposed to that kind of heat, you don't know how to handle it. (There is a reason that the people in the SE have the reputation of moving and speaking more slowly than people from the NE.)

As a species, we still continue to work to make the situation worse and even in the face of hard evidence and some basic understanding as to how the climate works. We still keep pumping our atmosphere full of heat trapping gasses. We may have destroyed our species already and are just now seeing the beginning of the die-off. We keep our heads buried in the sand we still have national leaders denying that man-made climate change even exists, much less demanding that we work to fix the problem. We will not let our survival interfere with short term profits.

It is a self-inflicted wound, when I was in the Navy, they could have court-martialed me for the same crime. If we don't get a handle on the problem we probably do not deserve to survive. Perhaps this is a test.....