Dr. Peter Carter, Paul Beckwith and Regina Valdez discuss wet bulb temperature and how it is making survivability in the heat more difficult in regions that are already historically hot.

This video was recorded on June 29th, 2022, and published on July 17th, 2022.

Some of the topics discussed:
- What is wet bulb temperature and what are its thresholds for survivability?
- How higher wet bulb temperatures are affecting farmers in India and Pakistan.
- How prolonged exposure to high wet bulb temperatures can, within a few hours, lead to heat exhaustion and death.
- The importance of air conditioning and other methods of cooling the body during high wet bulb temperature periods.
- How the wet bulb survivability threshold has been found to be lower than the theoretical threshold.
- The fact that older people, babies and people on certain medications are most vulnerable to higher wet bulb temperatures.
- How heat waves resulting in higher wet bulb temperatures can lead to massive die offs of people and animals as portrayed in the book by Kim Stanley Robinson called ‘The Ministry for the Future.’
- How high occurrences of high wet bulb temperatures will lead to the need for ‘Chill Suites,’ along with other solutions.
- and more. . .

Links:
- Wet-bulb Temperature (Wikipedia)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature

- Potentially Fatal Combinations of Humidity and Heat Are Emerging Across the Globe
https://news.climate.columbia.edu/2020/05/08/fatal-heat-humidity-emerging/

- Practical Human Wet-Bulb Temperature Resilience Threshold Limit Measured to Be Much Lower than 35°C
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twwhTWEkBqY

- Deadly Heat Stress to Become Commonplace Across South Asia Already at 1.5°C of Global Warming
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2020GL091191

- Humidity May Prove Breaking Point for Some Areas as Temperatures Rise, Says Study
https://science.fas.columbia.edu/news/humidity-may-prove-breaking-point-for-some-areas-as-temperatures-rise-says-study/

- Global warming: Earth has 50% chance of exceeding 1.5 degrees Celsius in next 5 years, scientists say
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/05/global-warming-earth-has-50-chance-of-exceeding-1-5-degrees-celsius-in-next-five-years-scientists-say/

- The White Roof Project
https://kakarikistreet.wordpress.com/2011/06/16/the-white-roof-project/

Panelists:
Dr. Peter Carter - MD, Expert IPCC Reviewer and the director of the Climate Emergency Institute

Paul Beckwith - Climate Systems Scientist. Professor at the University of Ottawa in the Paleoclimatology Laboratory as well as at Carleton University

Regina Valdez - Program Director, Climate Reality Project, NYC. GreenFaith Fellow and LEED Green Associate

Video Production:
Charles Gregoire - Electrical Engineer, Webmaster and IT prime for FacingFuture.Earth & the Climate Emergency Forum; Climate Reality Leader

Heidi Brault - Video production and website assistant, Organizer and convener, Metadata technician, COP26 team lead for FacingFuture.Earth and the Climate Emergency Forum; BA (Psychology); Climate Reality Leader

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https://climateemergencyforum.org/

Attributions:
Background Music:
- Title: Through the City II
- Author: Crowander
- Source: Free Music Archive
- License: CC BY-NC 4.0

Image and Video: https://climateemergencyforum.org/assets/attributions/2022-07-17-too-hot-to-handle.html