Humidity+may+prove+breaking+point+for+some+areas+as+temperatures+rise

Science Daily, December 22, 2017

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Summery-

This article talks about how there are many different factors that play into global warming and there are some that are being widely ignored, such as humidity. They talk about how all over the world there are people who are suffering from this that don’t have air conditioning which is causing them to be unable to do most tasks that need to be done. It explains that on the Persian Gulf in 2015, not accounting humidity, it reached 115 degrees, but, including the humidity, it reached the deadly temperature of 165 degrees.

Relation to class -

This is very related to our class because it talks about global warming problems which relate to the health of the environment. They describe the difference between what is shown in most articles about global warming compared to what is really happening which they refer to as “wet bulb” temperatures. Wet bulb temperatures are the temperatures shown with the heat and the humidities combined effects. It shows that in the relatively near future (2070), if this problem continues in the way it has, it could cause temperatures of 90-100 degrees fahrenheit for 20 to 40 days in the southern US.

Opinion - I personally think this should be brought to light and we should do research on what we could do to prevent it. This goes along with global warming so efforts to prevent global warming would also help with the humidity issues and the wet bulb temperatures. According to the article, if nations collectively stopped producing greenhouse gases for a few decades then most of the worst effects could potentially be avoided. Overall I definitely agree with this article and the statement it uses in the end saying “ The basic point stands... Unless greenhouse emissions are cut, we move toward a world where heat stress is a vastly greater problem than it has been in the rest of human history. The effects will fall hardest on hot and humid regions.”

Environmental Law - There are several laws made for limiting greenhouse gas emissions from trucks, cars, aircrafts, and federal fleets, but, there are still many laws that need to be made in order to help prevent this problem from further developing along with global warming. To prevent this, we would also need other nations to join us on this endeavor to prevent further damage to the Earth’s condition.