Cue Ball (left) and Roni (middle), who are both homeless, made their way toward a market amid the city's worst heat wave on record on July 24 in Phoenix, Ariz.MARIO TAMA/GETTY
By Sabrina Shankman, Boston Globe, September 17, 2023
With a sweltering heat wave in Massachusetts not far behind us, new research is finding that periods of heat and humidity so great that humans cannot survive without sources of cooling are likely coming much sooner than previously believed.
Hundreds of millions of people worldwide could be regularly exposed, including in parts of the southern United States, it concludes.
“It’s going to implicate huge swaths of humanity. Billions of people are going to have to deal with this on an annual basis,” said Christopher Schwalm, a senior scientist and the Risk Program Director at the Woodwell Climate Research Center, who co-authored the study, published earlier this month in the journal Science Advances.
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