This blog may help people explore some of the 'hidden' issues involved in certain media treatments of environmental and scientific issues. Using personal digital images, it's also intended to emphasise seasonal (and other) changes in natural history of the Swansea (South Wales) area. The material should help participants in field-based modules and people generally interested in the natural world. The views are wholly those of the author.
Monday, 8 March 2021
Tropics May be Out of Bounds?
Many people appear to have reluctantly given up on the idea of limiting global heating to 1.5 degrees Centigrade above pre-Industrial levels. If so, they are probably giving up on humans being able to occupy the planet's tropical regions (https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/08/global-heating-tropical-regions-human-livability). The human core body temperature is 37 degrees Centigrade (it's the optimum temperature for the activity of our enzyme systems). If the wet bulb temperature exceeds 35 degrees Centigrade, the combination of heat and humidity, means that sweating will not to cool the body. People would then be forced to migrate out of tropical areas, placing enormous pressures on populations, provision of food etc. Even the areas they would be forced to move into, would be reduced by rises in sea levels. Perhaps we need to try a little harder?
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