An adaptability limit to climate change due to heat stress

By S. Sherwood, Matthew Huber. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2010

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Health, Toxicology and Mutagenesis

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Quantifying the economic risks of climate change (2017, background): “Several authors reference the study by Sherwood and Huber (2010) showing that unabated warming will produce wet-bulb temperatures that make large areas uninhabitable as evidence that the quadratic extrapolation in DICE under-estimates damages at high temperatures (Fisher & Le, 2014; Revesz et al.”
Projecting global urban land expansion and heat island intensification through 2050 (2019, background): “The apparent temperature (AP) (Sherwood and Huber 2010, Li et al 2018), measured with a heat stress index using both temperature and humidity, can account for the full physiological impacts of heat on human bodies.”
An Economist’s Guide to Climate Change Science (2018, neutral): “Dangerously hot and humid conditions are projected to become dramatically more likely in several regions around the world (Sherwood and Huber 2010).”
Joint bias correction of temperature and precipitation in climate model simulations (2014, background): “…a combination of high temperatures and high humidity has been found to increase human discomfort, morbidity, and mortality [Fisher et al., 2012; Sherwood and Huber, 2010], while the co-occurrence of precipitation-free days and light winds has been linked to pollutant accumulation, air quality…”
Upholding labour productivity under climate change: an assessment of adaptation options (2018, background): “…impaired productivity, including heat stroke and other heat-related health symptoms, or even death, especially for people already suffering from cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, respiratory or other chronic conditions (Haines, Kovats, CampbellLendrum, & Corvalán, 2006; Sherwood & Huber, 2010).”
Climate Risks and Carbon Prices: Revising the Social Cost of Carbon (2012, positive): “8 lives would experience conditions, at least once a year, that human physiology cannot tolerate – resulting in death from heat stroke within a few hours (Sherwood and Huber 2010).”
GHG Targets as Insurance Against Catastrophic Climate Damages (2012, background): “Now substitute the lognormal PDF (1), (6) (for I=L), the utility function (9) (for base case =3), and the damages functions (7) and (8) into equation (11).”
Assessing the Habitability of the TRAPPIST-1 System Using a 3D Climate Model (2017, background): “However, for further increasing CO2 amounts, the habitable surface area sharply declines as surface temperatures locally warm beyond the human heat stress limit (Sherwood & Huber 2010).”
Quantifying the human cost of global warming (2022, background): “At wet-bulb temperature (WBT) >28 °C, the effectiveness of sweating in cooling the body decreases, and WBT ~35 °C can be fatal 41,42 especially for more vulnerable individuals 43 (as the body can no longer cool itself).”
Understanding Decreases in Land Relative Humidity with Global Warming: Conceptual Model and GCM Simulations (2016, background): “Later studies have found a sharp decrease in land relative humidity since 2000 (Simmons et al. 2010; Willett et al. 2014, 2015), but the long-term trend remains insigniﬁcant (Willett et al. 2014).”