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Environmental and ecological discussion, particularly of things like weather and other natural phenomena (especially if they're not breaking news).

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Wet bulb events. Not as sexy as they sound. (open.substack.com)

submitted 1 year ago by ag_roberston_author to c/environment

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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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[–] pkulak 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

our 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 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I 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 1 points 1 year ago

Yes. Your explanation is good.