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Humid heat exceeds human tolerance limits and causes mass mortality

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  • Tom Matthews

    (King’s College London)

  • Emma E. Ramsay

    (Nanyang Technological University)

  • Fahad Saeed

    (Climate Analytics)

  • Steven Sherwood

    (University of New South Wales)

  • Ollie Jay

    (University of Sydney)

  • Colin Raymond

    (Los Angeles)

  • Nerilie Abram

    (Australian National University)

  • Jason Kai Wei Lee

    (National University of Singapore)

  • Shanta Barley

    (University of Western Australia
    Fortescue)

  • Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick

    (Australian National University
    Australian National University)

  • Mariam Saleh Khan

    (Weather and Climate Services)

  • Katrin J. Meissner

    (University of New South Wales)

  • Callum Roberts

    (Exeter University)

  • Dileep Mavalankar

    (Indian Institute of Public Health)

  • Kenneth G. C. Smith

    (Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI)
    University of Melbourne)

  • Atta Ullah

    (Weather and Climate Services)

  • Anwar Sadad

    (Weather and Climate Services)

  • Victoria Turner

    (Los Angeles)

  • Andrew Forrest

    (University of Western Australia
    Fortescue
    Minderoo Foundation)

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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  • 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, 2025. "Humid heat exceeds human tolerance limits and causes mass mortality," Nature Climate Change, Nature, vol. 15(1), pages 4-6, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:natcli:v:15:y:2025:i:1:d:10.1038_s41558-024-02215-8
    DOI: 10.1038/s41558-024-02215-8
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