Submitted â¨â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago⊠by â¨callmepk@lemmy.world⊠to â¨[deleted]âŠ
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The craziest thing is this (real) article doesnât address things like wet bulbs which can be fatal, and no amount of heat tolerance will change that.
So not is it proof The Washington Post is class traitor garbage, but also that their journalism isnât even good
no amount of heat tolerance will change that.
Conservatives: âClimate change will be fine. Actually all this extra carbon in the air will be good for the plants. Youâll see.â
Also Conservatives: âWE NEED TO MAKE MORE BABIES! ONLY THE FITTEST WILL SURVIVE!â
Also Also Conservatives: âWe need to conquer Canada and Greenland for⌠uh⌠reasons.â
Heat tolerance will also not help against the increases in storms, floods and wildfires that are directly caused by the heat increases.
Summer being 110°F is not even in the top 10 of why climate change is bad.
*Extreme WBTâs
A wet bulb thermometer measures wet bulb temperature (WBT), which exists always as long as thereâs any humidity whatsoever in the air. It only gets bad when the WBT reaches an extreme value, as is the case for basically all environmental metrics. Saying that wet bulb temperature is lethal is like saying that temperature is lethal. Look out for temperature! Iâm sorry for the rant so Iâll try to keep this short, but âwet bulbâ by itself in this context is an inane shorthand that lacks all the significant words and muddles the meaning of those words that are in it. Scientists talk about Extreme WBT events, because thatâs what they are.
The problem with your rant is that the âextremeâ label is applied by researchers in temperate climates and could very easily, and almost certainly will be thanks to Trump, be replaced by âtropicalâ
Letâs see if these experts can build up a tolerance to acute lead poisoning
Or, more topically, exposure to raw sewage.
Iâm gonna take a wild guess that the âexpertsâ have air-conditioned homes and workplaces.
Make them live without AC for the entire next summer and letâs see if their âexpertâ opinion changes.
They were asked these questions by journalists and they answered. Donât blame scientists for idiot media people.
Scientists can be absolutely the biggest idiots. I worked maintenance in a laboratory and sometimes I was impressed somebody who can genotype plankton could also tie their own shoes.
Fun fact, frogs wonât actually sit in the water, they always jump out when it gets too hot. Hilariously, humans are one of the few species of animals that will cook.
The test was around brain dead frogs to see if theyâd jump out or boil to death⌠Not about functional frogs.
Humans confirmed worse than brain dead frogs
Itâs like shooting yourself with smaller bullets to build up a resistance to higher calibers
I used to go on 1-2 hour walks every day, the heat never felt less bad.
Thatâs cause it keeps getting hotter
excuse me then why does it snow
True? Yes. Climate solution? No.
Step one: undergo a lobotomy
I never would have thought Bezos was a StalinistâŚ
Iâd really like to know what in this image relates to Stalin.
They donât remember what Lysenkoism is, but do remember Stalin was involved somewhere.
The old Soviet system was enthralled with classic conditioning, and Stalin tended to use it to shape society, although Lenin was more appreciative of Pavlov. 1984 is Orwellâs critique of Stalinism. It seems Bezos didnât object to a classic conditioning editorial and it shows in his treatment of Amazon workers.
Lumidaub@feddit.org â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Goddammit itâs real.
web.archive.org/âŚ/how-to-become-heat-tolerant/
brucethemoose@lemmy.world â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Oh my god, I thought this was an Onion meme.
WTF.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
When I was a kid, I asked a science teacher: âWhy donât humans just evolve to adapt to the ozone layer being goneâ
The teacher responded: âThatâs not how evolution worksâŚâ (and then explained it)
An UNDER-PAID TEACHER can understand that, are these journalists just kids who never paid attention in class?
Obelix@feddit.org â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
I mean, evolution kind of might work around the ozone layer being gone. People just need to have children before the skin cancer kills them and thatâs totally possible. Might be good if the parents donât die when the kids are too little.
Evolution really doesnât care about your personal well-being and wonât help you. It might âevolveâ the human race to get children earlier in their teens, because everybody over 30 is dead from skin cancer and microplastics, but maybe the better solution is to use something different in hair spray and fridges.
ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Yep. Very much so. Same for cold and high altitudes. Our bodies really are extra badass.
Lumidaub@feddit.org â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Just so weâre on the same page, I wasnât unsure whether it is possible to acclimatise oneâs body to different temperatures but whether this was something someone actually had the gall to write about as a âclimate solutionâ.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works â¨2⊠â¨months⊠ago
Also, occasionally, athletes just fucking drop dead while doing so. And theyâre the healthiest among us.