Nature Communications (Dec 2021)

Increased labor losses and decreased adaptation potential in a warmer world

  • Luke A. Parsons,
  • Drew Shindell,
  • Michelle Tigchelaar,
  • Yuqiang Zhang,
  • June T. Spector

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-27328-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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Outdoor workers may need to adapt to warming by moving labor from midday to cooler hours. Here the authors find this adaptation strategy loses efficacy under additional climate change due to increased heat exposure in the coolest hours of the day.