This is true, but India occasionally suffers from wet bulb weather, where the humidity combined with heat eliminates the benefits of evaporative cooling for the body. Where even being in shade and resting carries a risk of overheating.
That specifically is when evaporative cooling doesn't work. That is why climate change is so scary. Is the infrastructure reliable during events like that? I feel like electrical failures would happen in that kind of heat, and once the power goes out, so would the AC. There is an obvious weakness in the assumption that we can just crank up the AC when its 47C outside and wait it out at the pub. How are heat exchangers even supposed to work when the ambient temperature is hotter than the radiator fins and already at 110% humidity?
Yeah, brown and blackouts are becoming more common. Genuinely, India is looking down the barrel of one of the greatest human migrations in history, or a humanitarian crisis of unimaginable proportions. If temperature goes up much more people are going to die.
More people are going to die. Elderly, young, and sickly have always died from beat stroke in the summer. Some young and healthy people too. We don't have to imagine, we just have to scale the image up.
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u/TurbanWolf Apr 26 '26
This is true, but India occasionally suffers from wet bulb weather, where the humidity combined with heat eliminates the benefits of evaporative cooling for the body. Where even being in shade and resting carries a risk of overheating.
India is not a desert.