[MCN] Here are the places that could become too hot for humans due to climate change - Phys.org

[Lance Olsen]

Here are the places that could become too hot for humans due to climate change - Phys.org <https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=https://phys.org/news/2023-11-hot-humans-due-climate.html&ct=ga&cd=CAEYAioUMTM1ODYzNTA5NTMzMTY3NjQxMjgyGmJmNmVmOTBmZDkxYzExY2E6Y29tOmVuOlVT&usg=AOvVaw1LmIrMsxLf576W3KRC2Vgn>
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heat wave. Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain. Heat waves have always been part of summer, but the familiar short periods of oppressive conditions ...

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“The impacts of temperature may also be more indirect, but still related to physiological tolerances. For example, in spiny lizards (Sceloporus), local extinctions seem to occur because higher temperatures restrict surface activity during the spring breeding season to a daily time window that is overly short [23]. 

Similarly, increased air temperatures may both decrease activity time and increase energy maintenance costs, leading organisms to die from starvation rather than from overheating [14].”

Cahill et al. How does climate change cause extinction? 
Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 2013. 

PDF<<https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/pdf/10.1098/rspb.2012.1890>>

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