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 and Andrew Forrest
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Tom Matthews: King’s College London
Emma E. Ramsay: Nanyang Technological University
Fahad Saeed: Climate Analytics
Steven Sherwood: University of New South Wales
Ollie Jay: University of Sydney
Colin Raymond: Los Angeles
Nerilie Abram: Australian National University
Jason Kai Wei Lee: National University of Singapore
Shanta Barley: University of Western Australia
Sarah Perkins-Kirkpatrick: Australian National University
Mariam Saleh Khan: Weather and Climate Services
Katrin J. Meissner: University of New South Wales
Callum Roberts: Exeter University
Dileep Mavalankar: Indian Institute of Public Health
Kenneth G. C. Smith: Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research (WEHI)
Atta Ullah: Weather and Climate Services
Anwar Sadad: Weather and Climate Services
Victoria Turner: Los Angeles
Andrew Forrest: University of Western Australia

Nature Climate Change, 2025, vol. 15, issue 1, 4-6

Abstract: 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.

Date: 2025
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