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Post by AJ1013 on Jan 9, 2024 10:57:53 GMT -5
Babu As someone whose lived in the tropics most of my life I don’t subscribe to the “acclimatization” theory regarding temperature perception. Half the year here is brutally hot and humid, doesn’t make the first 20C day of the fall feel cold, it just feels like heavenly relief.
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Post by Benfxmth on Jan 9, 2024 11:00:30 GMT -5
That's because air conditioning (especially to well below outdoor temps) reduces/removes heat acclimatization, likewise, using a lot of heating reduces/removes cold acclimatization.
Disliking hot weather is one thing, denying the science behind physical adaptation is completely another.
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Post by AJ1013 on Jan 9, 2024 11:02:48 GMT -5
That's because air conditioning (especially to well below outdoor temps) reduces/removes heat acclimatization, likewise, using a lot of heating reduces/removes cold acclimatization. Disliking hot weather is one thing, denying the science behind physical adaptation is completely another. I’m outside 8+ hours a day essentially every day. Try again. |
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Post by Benfxmth on Jan 9, 2024 11:04:42 GMT -5
That's because air conditioning (especially to well below outdoor temps) reduces/removes heat acclimatization, likewise, using a lot of heating reduces/removes cold acclimatization. Disliking hot weather is one thing, denying the science behind physical adaptation is completely another. I’m outside 8+ hours a day essentially every day. Try again. One sample size who experiences the contrary still doesn't distract from the fact that people living in different climates have different tolerances (physical, but also psychological and behavioral) to similar temps/conditions. |
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Post by massiveshibe on Jan 9, 2024 14:56:19 GMT -5
You might have felt chilly at 26C because you were soaking wet, exposed to the wind and/or have developed some acclimatization to tropical climates due to travelling to the tropics often. Either that, or you had a fever at the time. The Africans and you met who told you Sweden got to hot during heat waves either lived in Sweden for so long they have acclimatized to the climate and lost their heat tolerance, or they were from highland regions of Africa.
Genetic differences between ethnicities do account for heat and cold tolerance. I highly doubt an Aurignacian or Gravettian who survived -50C cold waves while living in mud huts and wearing improvised animal skins would ever feel cold at 20C. Exactly lol, the heat tolerance they might've had when they lived in Africa disappeared so it wasn't genetic. I'm sure an Aurignacian would feel cold at 20C if they were born and grew up in today's Singapore. I doubt it. Even if Aurignacians could survive in Singapore (they probably couldn't), they would still have far more cold tolerance than anyone else. Aurignacians and Gravettians were tall with proportionally shorter limbs, had rounded heads and a stocky body shape. They were way more cold adapted than any modern ethnic group. It's like a Siberian Husky who grew up in a tropical climate and a Chimpanzee who grew up in a subpolar climate. The Husky will still be more cold tolerant than the Chimp. |
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