Are you essentially saying that wet bulb is fake news because of your personal experience in which you didn't deal with wet bulb, especially on an extended timeframe?
Do you believe that billions of people with poor infrastructure and no air conditioning are magically going to have infrastructure and air conditioning appear?
There is a lot of strange posting going on in this thread for HN...
There is a lot of strange posting going on in this thread for HN...
You are sure right about that. Posts that are utterly lacking critical thinking, claims without evidence. It is embarrassing behavior for this forum. There is more data on this subject than possibly any other phenomenon on Earth, and visible, palpable change has occurred in recent memory.
> Are you essentially saying that wet bulb is fake news
No. The comment I am responding to said:
>> Wet bulb temperatures of 35 degrees C in areas with billions of people and poor power infrastructure to run AC is bad, for example
The claim that something that has hitherto only been observed in extremely few circumstances for extremely brief periods of time will become commonplace requires strong proof.
> The claim that something that has hitherto only been observed in extremely few circumstances for extremely brief periods of time will become commonplace requires strong proof.
1. Wikipedia gives examples of wet bulb temperatures already approaching the 35 degree threshold in the current climate.
2. Climate scientists believe the global average temperature will (continue to) rise.
The logical conclusion is that we're more likely to exceed wet bulb temperatures of 35 degrees as temperatures climb. Some of the areas already prone to high heat and high humidity are densely populated, and some of those areas don't have the infrastructure to support AC for everyone.
Do you believe that billions of people with poor infrastructure and no air conditioning are magically going to have infrastructure and air conditioning appear?
There is a lot of strange posting going on in this thread for HN...