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Episode 47 - Heatwaves and Wet Bulb

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Some of climate change's most deadly consequences will come from an increase in deadly heatwaves. In this episode, Kory and Kellan discuss what the wet bulb temperature is and how we can expect it to affect us in the future.

Learn More:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wet-bulb_temperature

https://phys.libretexts.org/Bookshelves/Conceptual_Physics/Book%3A_Body_Physics_-_Motion_to_Metabolism_(Davis)/10%3A_Powering_the_Body/10.09%3A_Efficiency_of_the_Human_Body

https://www.engineersedge.com/heat_transfer/thermal_energy_created_13777.htm

https://www.climatesignals.org/climate-signals/atmospheric-moisture-increase

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thermoregulation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperthermia



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