Wet Bulb Temperature. Life or death?

Wet bulb temperature sounds almost comical, but the implications of it's extremes could not be more serious. And as our planet's atmosphere continues to warm, our tropical regions move ever closer to posing that existential threat to billions of people.

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Research Links

Nature Geoscience Paper
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41561-021-00695-3.epdf?no_publisher_access=1&r3_referer=nature

Guardian Article
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/mar/08/global-heating-tropical-regions-human-livability

PNAS Paper : Future of the Human niche.
https://www.pnas.org/content/117/21/11350

The difference between weather and climate
https://www.outsideonline.com/2387816/difference-between-weather-and-climate#:~:text=Think%20of%20the%20weather%20as,over%20the%20course%20of%20years&text=Let's%20get%20one%20thing%20straight%3A%20Weather%20is%20not%20climate.&text=Climate%20change%20is%20real.

Ed Lorenz 1963 Paper on chaos theory
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0309133308091948?icid=int.sj-abstract.similar-articles.1