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Matthew Huber

• An adaptability limit to climate change due to heat stress

  Despite the uncertainty in future climate-change impacts, it is often assumed that humans would be able to adapt to any possible warming. Here we argue that heat stress imposes a robust upper limit to such adaptation. Peak heat stress, quantified by the wet-bulb temperature TW, is surprisingly similar across diverse climates today. TW never exceeds 31?

  • 25/05/2010

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • • Climate Change
    • Climate Science
    • Global Warming
    • Climate Impacts
    • Heat Waves
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Steven C. Sherwood
    • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    • Matthew Huber

• Snakes tell a torrid tale

  The discovery in Colombia of a giant species of fossil snake is news in itself. But a wider, more controversial inference to be drawn is that tropical climate in the past was not buffered from global warming.

  • 05/02/2009

  • Nature
  • • Climate Change
    • Climate Science
    • Fossils
    • Colombia