We're still at the beach (you're probably tired of hearing that, but Mrs. R. is already wringing her hands and gnashing her teeth at the thought that next week we won't be able to say it), and it's really hot here. Nineties and humid. Two years ago (August 2007) we were also here and it was also hot. Nineties and humid. It's always hot and humid at the beach. That's why they call it the beach! (huh? I thought it was because that's the place where some bozo plays his music too loud and you get sand in your picnic sandwiches). Whatever. It's hot. Last time it prompted this little post on why it's true that it's not the heat but the humidity -- and why:
Link: We're having a heat wave
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I’m writing tonight from the currently rain-drenched city of Lincoln, Nebraska, en route to the Yearly Kos Convention in Chicago.
Famed global warming "skeptic" Richard Lindzen has an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal today about global warming--which includes some debunking of the proposed hurricane/GW link. He writes:
New articles in PLoS Pathogens, PLoS Computational Biology and PLoS Genetics were publ
Back in July, David Evans had on opinion piece in the Australian claiming:
Most people who have been diagnosed with chronic depression and anxiety have probably been prescribed modern anti-depression and anxiety medications such as Prozac, Celexa, Zoloft, Paxil and other SSRI related medications which seem to be the favorite choice of every modern doctor of the 21st century. Is this findrxonlinein article.
I prefer a slightly edited version of that gem:
"It's not the heat, it's the stupidity."
Don't disagree with anything here, but most people using the phrase are referring to the heat in the air, which is more a function of temperature than humidity. The humidity of course lowers the rate of heat loss from your body, making you feel hotter at the same temperature with a lower humidity, since your bodies heat content is higher.