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- Human-Caused Climate Change Made 2016 Way Too Hot http://www.space.com/36201-2016-weather-broke-records.html 56 comments worldnews
- Global warming caused record Australian heatwave, top scientists conclude – the Australian summer of 2012/13 was about five times as likely as a result of human-induced influence on climate, the record hot calendar year of 2013 would have been virtually impossible without human contributions http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/geoffreylean/100265204/global-warming-caused-record-australian-heatwave-top-scientists-conclude/ 15 comments worldnews
- A national lab just achieved a ‘Wright Brothers moment’ in nuclear fusion| A laser light was focused onto a target the size of a BB which resulted in “a hot-spot the diameter of a human hair, generating more than 10 quadrillion watts of fusion power for 100 trillionths of a second,” https://www.cnbc.com/2021/08/17/lawrence-livermore-lab-makes-significant-achievement-in-fusion.html 4 comments science
- Humans have triggered the last 16 record-breaking hot years experienced on Earth (up to 2014), with the new research tracing our impact on the global climate as far back as 1937. The findings suggest that without human-induced climate change, recent hot summers and years would not have occurred. http://phys.org/news/2016-03-human-climate-dates-1930s.html 3931 comments science
- Climate change made European heatwave up to 3°C hotter. Human-induced warming also made the hot spell up to 100 times more likely in some parts. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-019-02384-z 15 comments science
- [NASA] Orion Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor Hot-Fire Test: A static hot-fire test of the Orion spacecraft's Launch Abort System Attitude Control Motor to help qualify the motor for human spaceflight, to help ensure Orion is ready from liftoff to splashdown for missions to the Moon. https://www.nasa.gov/image-feature/orion-launch-abort-system-attitude-control-motor-hot-fire-test 4 comments space
- Human brains run hot — sometimes more than 40 °C https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-01654-7#Echobox=1655720044-1 2 comments science
- This weekend’s deadly tornado storms were fueled by record-hot, moist air from the Gulf of Mexico crashing into a cold air mass. The oceans are this hot because humans have dug up and burned hundreds of billions of tons of fossil fuels. https://hillheat.substack.com/p/hot-winter-tornadoes-and-coal-powered 40 comments environment
- Can We Survive Extreme Heat? Humans have never lived on a planet this hot, and we’re totally unprepared for what’s to come https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/climate-crisis-goodell-survive-extreme-heat-875198/ 87 comments environment
- Climate change: Summers could become 'too hot for humans' http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53415298 20 comments worldnews
- Summers could become 'too hot for humans' https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-53415298 8 comments worldnews
- Summers could become 'too hot for humans' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53415298 496 comments worldnews
- Summers could become 'too hot for humans' https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53415298 6 comments worldnews
- Climate change has already made parts of the world too hot for humans https://www.newscientist.com/article/2242855-climate-change-has-already-made-parts-of-the-world-too-hot-for-humans/ 3 comments science
- It’s already getting too hot and humid in some places for humans to survive: Extreme conditions are happening more often than scientists previously thought https://www.theverge.com/21252174/heat-humidity-human-survival-climate-change-science-advances 16 comments climate
- Extreme hot spells made increasingly likely by climate change could overload urban power grids and cause roving blackouts as an ever-greater share of humanity opt to live in cities. More than half of mankind is expected to live in cities by 2050 https://www.businesstimes.com.sg/energy-commodities/extreme-weather-to-overload-urban-power-grids-study-shows 3 comments science
- Northern Hemisphere faces 4-fold rise in extreme heat periods: study | So-called compound hot extremes, 24-hour periods where daytime and nighttime temperatures stay exceptionally high, pose a significant risk to human health as the body doesn't get a chance to cool off after the Sun sets https://phys.org/news/2020-02-northern-hemisphere-fold-extreme-periods.html 5 comments worldnews
- Are parts of India becoming too hot for humans? https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/03/asia/india-heat-wave-survival-hnk-intl/index.html 76 comments india
- Newfound large-DNA "Medusavirus" turns amoebas in hot spring water into stone, doesn't affect humans https://jvi.asm.org/content/early/2019/02/04/jvi.02130-18 12 comments science
- If humans could survive with an internal body temperature of say, 40 degrees F. (4.5 degrees C) would external factors that are lower than said body temp. feel "Cold" and external factors warmer than said body temp. feel "Hot"? https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/agpkc8/if_humans_could_survive_with_an_internal_body/ 14 comments askscience
- One of the world's premier diving destinations owes its reputation as a hot spot of marine biodiversity to being undisturbed over millions of years. Researchers conclude that patterns of high diversity may take tens of millions of years to arise, but can be wiped out in a few years by human impacts. https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/secret-behind-coral-reef-diversity-time-lots-time 18 comments worldnews
- ‘God help us if it gets hot’: Train hauling 10M pounds of human feces stranded in town http://fox43.com/2018/04/05/train-hauling-10m-pounds-of-human-feces-stranded-in-alabama-town-god-help-us-if-it-gets-hot/ 8 comments nottheonion
- Train hauling 10M pounds of human feces stranded in Walker County town: ‘God help us if it gets hot’ http://whnt.com/2018/04/04/train-hauling-10m-pounds-of-human-feces-stranded-in-walker-county-town-god-help-us-if-it-gets-hot/ 7 comments nottheonion
- ‘God help us if it gets hot’: Train hauling 10M pounds of human feces stranded in town http://fox43.com/2018/04/05/train-hauling-10m-pounds-of-human-feces-stranded-in-alabama-town-god-help-us-if-it-gets-hot/ 42 comments nottheonion
- Train hauling 10M pounds of human feces stranded in Alabama town: 'God help us if it gets hot' http://wgntv.com/2018/04/04/train-hauling-10m-pounds-of-human-feces-stranded-in-alabama-town-god-help-us-if-it-gets-hot/ 3 comments nottheonion
- Placing human decision-making, known as the "optometrist's algorithm", at the center of computer optimization, yielded sustained hot plasmas in a colliding beam fusion reactor. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-06645-7 101 comments science
- When Will the Planet Be Too Hot for Humans? Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html 11 comments worldnews
- When Will the Planet Be Too Hot For Humans? Much, Much Sooner Than You Imagine. http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2017/07/climate-change-earth-too-hot-for-humans.html 25 comments worldevents
- Study finds human DNA in hot dogs, meat in veggie dogs http://www.wpxi.com/news/news/national/study-finds-human-dna-hot-dogs-meat-veggie-dogs/nn9f9/ 345 comments nottheonion
- Humans In Harnesses Are The Hot Accessory At Rick Owens https://www.yahoo.com/style/rick-owens-shows-human-harnesses-for-spring-2016-191330683.html 17 comments nottheonion
- Pope Francis' scheduled address to a joint session of Congress this fall could put Republican lawmakers who reject a human role in global warming in the hot seat. http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060013494 22 comments politics
- Russian rock legend Andrei Makarevich has been given a human rights award. Makarevich's outspoken criticism of Moscow's policies in neighboring Ukraine landed him in hot water earlier this year, with many branding him a "traitor" by Russian media http://www.themoscowtimes.com/mobile/news/513031.html 11 comments worldnews
- Monkey gamblers prone to believe "hot hands" fallacy, just like humans http://www.wired.com/2014/07/monkeys-like-people-believe-in-the-hot-hand-phenomenon/ 20 comments science
- Researcher Says Parts of Australia, US, India at the Edge of Being Too Hot for Human Life http://www.climatecodered.org/2013/11/parts-of-australia-reaching-threshold.html 8 comments worldnews
- Hot Mic At Pentagon Presser Catches Reporter: "See This Room? Two-Thirds Of Us Laid-Off When Ron Paul Is President" Yes, reddit, people who financially benefit from war are more concerned about their high paying jobs than the lives of human beings! http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/05/hot_mic_at_pentagon_presser_catches_reporter_see_this_room_two-thirds_of_us_laid-off_when_ron_paul_is_president.html 50 comments politics
- Thousands of volts flow through each of the lines he's reparing, enough to kill a human being. "When in a hot suit (special suit made from 25% stainless steel and 75% nomex)", the current is flowing around your outside, not through you". In other words, the suit is working as a Faraday cage. [pics] http://jimniaccurshi.blogspot.com/2010/07/dont-look-down-at-how-far-ground-is.html 69 comments science
- WHY HUMANS HAVE NO FUR -- EXPLAINED The cradle of human evolution in East Africa has been scorching hot for a long time, favoring fur-free, upright humans, new research finds http://news.discovery.com/human/humans-lost-fur-hot-climate.html 71 comments science
- China's "human flesh search engine" is in hot pursuit of an unnamed Chinese factory worker after photographs of her showed up unexpectedly on a new iPhone 3G purchased recently in Britain. http://www.smh.com.au/news/iphone-insider/human-flesh-search-engine-in-hot-pursuit/2008/08/28/1219516602946.html 49 comments technology
- Humans hot, sweaty, natural-born runners http://www.physorg.com/news95954919.html 68 comments reddit.com