If you’ve never heard of wet bulb events, get ready for a new level of climate anxiety. When the air kills you!
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yessikg ( @yessikg@lemmy.blahaj.zone ) 2•7 months agoI got very familiar with this last summer
pkulak ( @pkulak@beehaw.org ) 1•7 months agoour bodies transfer heat from our body to water on the surface of our skin, water that then evaporates, resulting in heat loss from our body
Not a great explanation. Sweat is obviously body temperature, so heat doesn’t move into it. Unless it turns into water vapor, which is a process that requires quite a lot of heat energy, cooling the remaining liquid or the surface.
TheCompassMaker ( @TheCompassMaker@beehaw.org ) 8•7 months agoI don’t see anything wrong with this explanation? Sweat (or more pendantically the water in sweat) does evaporate and that effect does remove total heat from the body.
pkulak ( @pkulak@beehaw.org ) 1•7 months agoYes. Your explanation is good.