But percentages in the stock market seem to be more important to efficiently combat climate change.
GodIsNull ( @GodIsNull@feddit.de ) 27•11 months agoSource?
Onihikage ( @Onihikage@beehaw.org ) English1•11 months agoI found this on the ol’ search machine https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2023/08/09/iran-persian-gulf-extreme-heat/
library_napper ( @library_napper@monyet.cc ) 18•11 months agoDown voted. Please repost with a link to the source. We’re better than this.
tiredofsametab ( @tiredofsametab@kbin.social ) 8•11 months agoA heat index is not an actual temperature reading. This is disingenuous and people whom don’t want to believe in things like climate change will latch on to and discredit people for things like this.
library_napper ( @library_napper@monyet.cc ) 3•11 months agoThanks, but the point is it needs to be the main link in the posting
I_Miss_Daniel ( @I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social ) 4•11 months agoWould like to see the option to add “Misleading Title” to articles, similar to what used to exist on “R”. Not enough people downvote misleading stuff.
library_napper ( @library_napper@monyet.cc ) 1•11 months agoMore like “image posted without a link to the source to verify it”
I_Miss_Daniel ( @I_Miss_Daniel@kbin.social ) 1•11 months agoTo me it was disingenuous to claim it was 70°C when it only “felt like” 70°C.
sci ( @sci@feddit.nl ) 14•11 months agoprobably faulty sensor, there’s no way the temp is 15 degrees higher than the current highest temperature ever measured
Hyperreality ( @Hyperreality@kbin.social ) 13•11 months agoWhat was the actual temperature? Heat index is something different.
The real temperature are 58ºC, but relevant is the index, that is, how we percive the temperature. With a dry air you can support more than 70º (eg in a Sauna), but with high air humidity, which evite the evaporation cooling by your sweat, even 50ºC result lethal in a short time, rising corporal temperature over 43ºC. Because of this, it’s the index which is the relevant value, not the one shown by the thermometer.
Hyperreality ( @Hyperreality@kbin.social ) 7•11 months agoI know. There’s also this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature
But mentioning the actual temperature is less misleading.
With a dry air you can support more than 70º (eg in a Sauna), but with high air humidity, which evite the evaporation cooling by your sweat, even 50ºC result lethal in a short time,
Over 90C dry, 50C wet, 10-15 minutes. Longer/hotter if you take dips in cold water to cool down or if you’re Finnish. They sometimes go over 100C, they’re used to it.
pH3ra ( @pH3ra@lemmy.ml ) 7•11 months agoThe title is a little clickbait-y: Heat Index is different from Temperature and not everyone knows that.
While it’s still bad, it sensationalizes the matter and this can be used against you from people that have a different opinion on the subject.