Humid heat exceeds human tolerance limits and causes mass mortality

IF 29.6 1区地球科学 Q1 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES

Nature Climate Change Pub Date : 2024-12-18 DOI:10.1038/s41558-024-02215-8

Tom Matthews, Emma E. Ramsay, Fahad Saeed, Steven Sherwood, Ollie Jay, Colin Raymond, Nerilie Abram, Jason Kai Wei Lee, Shanta Barley, Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick, Mariam Saleh Khan, Katrin J. Meissner, Callum Roberts, Dileep Mavalankar, Kenneth G. C. Smith, Atta Ullah, Anwar Sadad, Victoria Turner, Andrew Forrest

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Abstract

The hottest boreal summer on record has driven widespread humid heat mortality across every continent of the Northern Hemisphere. With critical physiological limits to human heat tolerance drawing ever closer, this Comment highlights the urgent need to limit further climate warming and emphasizes the adaptation challenge ahead.

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湿热超过人体耐受极限，导致大量死亡

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Nature Climate Change ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES-METEOROLOGY & ATMOSPHERIC SCIENCES

CiteScore

40.30

自引率

1.60%

发文量

267

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

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