Humid heat exceeds human tolerance limits and causes mass mortality

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

doi:10.1038/s41558-024-02215-8

Humid heat exceeds human tolerance limits and causes mass mortality

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

School of Biological Sciences

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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.

Original language	English
Article number	7653
Pages (from-to)	4-6
Number of pages	3
Journal	Nature Climate Change
Volume	15
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02215-8
Publication status	Published - Jan 2025

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Matthews, T., Ramsay, E. E., Saeed, F., Sherwood, S., Jay, O., Raymond, C., Abram, N., Lee, J. K. W., Barley, S., Perkins-Kirkpatrick, S., Khan, M. S., Meissner, K. J., Roberts, C., Mavalankar, D., Smith, K. G. C., Ullah, A., Sadad, A., Turner, V., & Forrest, A. (2025). Humid heat exceeds human tolerance limits and causes mass mortality. Nature Climate Change, 15, 4-6. Article 7653. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-024-02215-8

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Humid heat exceeds human tolerance limits and causes mass mortality

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