For more than a decade the benchmark for human heat survival has been a wet-bulb temperature of 35 degrees Celsius sustained for six hours — researchers have now found that deadly conditions occur well before that threshold is reached

For more than a decade, a wet-bulb temperature of 35 degrees Celsius sustained for six hours has served as a benchmark for the outer edge of human heat survivability in climate science. The figure comes from a 2010 paper by Steven Sherwood and Matthew Huber in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, which [...] The post For more than a decade the benchmark for human heat survival has been a wet-bulb temperature of 35 degrees Celsius sustained for six hours — researchers have now fou