Submitted 1 month ago by callmepk@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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The craziest thing is this (real) article doesn’t 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 isn’t even good
no amount of heat tolerance will change that.
Conservatives: “Climate change will be fine. Actually all this extra carbon in the air will be good for the plants. You’ll see.”
Also Conservatives: “WE NEED TO MAKE MORE BABIES! ONLY THE FITTEST WILL SURVIVE!”
Also Also Conservatives: “We need to conquer Canada and Greenland for… uh… reasons.”
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 WBT’s
A wet bulb thermometer measures wet bulb temperature (WBT), which exists always as long as there’s 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! I’m sorry for the rant so I’ll try to keep this short, but “wet bulb” 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 that’s what they are.
The problem with your rant is that the “extreme” label is applied by researchers in temperate climates and could very easily, and almost certainly will be thanks to Trump, be replaced by “tropical”
Let’s see if these experts can build up a tolerance to acute lead poisoning
Or, more topically, exposure to raw sewage.
I’m gonna take a wild guess that the “experts” have air-conditioned homes and workplaces.
Make them live without AC for the entire next summer and let’s see if their “expert” opinion changes.
They were asked these questions by journalists and they answered. Don’t 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 won’t 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 they’d jump out or boil to death… Not about functional frogs.
Humans confirmed worse than brain dead frogs
It’s 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.
That’s 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 Stalinist…
I’d really like to know what in this image relates to Stalin.
They don’t 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 Orwell’s critique of Stalinism. It seems Bezos didn’t object to a classic conditioning editorial and it shows in his treatment of Amazon workers.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 month ago
Goddammit it’s real.
web.archive.org/…/how-to-become-heat-tolerant/
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Oh my god, I thought this was an Onion meme.
WTF.
IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
When I was a kid, I asked a science teacher: “Why don’t humans just evolve to adapt to the ozone layer being gone”
The teacher responded: “That’s not how evolution works…” (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 1 month 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 that’s totally possible. Might be good if the parents don’t die when the kids are too little.
Evolution really doesn’t care about your personal well-being and won’t help you. It might “evolve” 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 1 month ago
Yep. Very much so. Same for cold and high altitudes. Our bodies really are extra badass.
Lumidaub@feddit.org 1 month ago
Just so we’re on the same page, I wasn’t unsure whether it is possible to acclimatise one’s body to different temperatures but whether this was something someone actually had the gall to write about as a “climate solution”.
ayyy@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
Also, occasionally, athletes just fucking drop dead while doing so. And they’re the healthiest among us.