2021/12/26

"Humans - along with many other species - would expire due to their inability to shed this heat through sweat, cooling their bodies"


Himalayan glaciers are undergoing rapid mass loss but rates of contemporary change lack long-term (centennial-scale) context.

"Widespread temperatures of between 40C to 50C, and even greater daily extremes, compounded by high levels of humidity would ultimately seal our fate. "Humans - along with many other species - would expire due to their inability to shed this heat through sweat, cooling their bodies."