“You rapidly approach a situation where it’s thermodynamically impossible to keep your body cool,” Radley Horton, an associate research professor at Columbia University’s Earth Institute and the Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, a co-author of the study, told VICE News.
The study projects that in coming decades the effects of high humidity in many areas may surpass humans’ ability to work or, in some cases, even survive.
A new study by Columbia scientists Anouch Missirian and Wolfram Schlenker found that ”weather shocks on agricultural regions in 103 countries around the globe directly influence emigration” to Europe.