The DOI matches its Crossref record; 133 of the 133 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Limitations to Thermoregulation and Acclimatization Challenge Human Adaptation to Global Warming
Open accessAbstract
Human thermoregulation and acclimatization are core components of the human coping mechanism for withstanding variations in environmental heat exposure. Amidst growing recognition that curtailing global warming to less than two degrees is becoming increasing improbable, human survival will require increasing reliance on these mechanisms. The projected several fold increase in extreme heat events suggests we need to recalibrate health protection policies and ratchet up adaptation efforts. Climate researchers, epidemiologists, and policy makers engaged in climate change adaptation and health protection are not commonly drawn from heat physiology backgrounds. Injecting a scholarly consideration of physiological limitations to human heat tolerance into the adaptation and policy literature allows for a broader understanding of heat health risks to support effective human adaptation and adaptation planning. This paper details the physiological and external environmental factors that determine human thermoregulation and acclimatization. We present a model to illustrate the interrelationship between elements that modulate the physiological process of thermoregulation. Limitations inherent in these processes, and the constraints imposed by differing exposure levels, and thermal comfort seeking on achieving acclimatization, are then described. Combined, these limitations will restrict the likely contribution that acclimatization can play in future human adaptation to global warming. We postulate that behavioral and technological adaptations will need to become the dominant means for human individual and societal adaptations as global warming progresses.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Climate change 2007: the physical science basis
Solomon, S., Qin, D., Manning, M., Marquis, M. C., Averyt, K. B., Tignor, M., Miller, H. L., & Chen, Z. (2007) · Cited by 23,383
Climate Change 2007: The Physical Science Basis.
Schiavon, S., & Zecchin, R. (2007) · eScholarship (California Digital Library) · Cited by 16,994
Lee, I.-M., Shiroma, E. J., Lobelo, F., Puska, P., Blair, S. N., & Katzmarzyk, P. T. (2012) · The Lancet · doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(12)61031-9 · Cited by 8,215
Mortality risk attributable to high and low ambient temperature: a multicountry observational study
Gasparrini, A., Guo, Y., Hashizume, M., Lavigne, E., Zanobetti, A., Schwartz, J., Tobias, A., Tong, S., Rocklöv, J., Forsberg, B., et al. (2015) · The Lancet · doi:10.1016/s0140-6736(14)62114-0 · Cited by 2,965
Wang, Y., & Beydoun, M. A. (2007) · Epidemiologic Reviews · doi:10.1093/epirev/mxm007 · Cited by 2,792
Fit Yourself and Take Your Lungs to Heart
Palange, P., & Bonini, M. (2013) · Respiration · doi:10.1159/000350831 · Cited by 2,779
Coumou, D., & Rahmstorf, S. (2012) · Nature Climate Change · doi:10.1038/nclimate1452 · Cited by 2,289
Bouchama, A., & Knochel, J. P. (2002) · New England Journal of Medicine · doi:10.1056/nejmra011089 · Cited by 1,898
Heat Stress and Public Health: A Critical Review
Kovats, R. S., & Hajat, S. (2008) · Annual Review of Public Health · doi:10.1146/annurev.publhealth.29.020907.090843 · Cited by 1,896
Cited by
Mora, C., Dousset, B., Caldwell, I. R., Powell, F. E., Geronimo, R. C., Bielecki, C. R., Counsell, C. W. W., Dietrich, B. S., Johnston, E. T., Louis, L. V., et al. (2017) · Nature Climate Change · doi:10.1038/nclimate3322 · Cited by 1,746
Seasonal variations in cardiovascular disease
Stewart, S., Keates, A. K., Redfern, A., & McMurray, J. J. V. (2017) · Nature Reviews Cardiology · doi:10.1038/nrcardio.2017.76 · Cited by 328
Dimitrova, A., Ingole, V., Basagaña, X., Ranzani, O., Milà, C., Ballester, J., & Tonne, C. (2021) · Environment International · doi:10.1016/j.envint.2020.106170 · Cited by 164
Twenty-Seven Ways a Heat Wave Can Kill You: Deadly Heat in the Era of Climate Change
Mora, C., Counsell, C. W. W., Bielecki, C. R., & Louis, L. V. (2017) · Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes · doi:10.1161/circoutcomes.117.004233 · Cited by 148
Sarofim, M. C., Saha, S., Hawkins, M. D., Mills, D. M., Hess, J., Horton, R., Kinney, P., Schwartz, J., & St. Juliana, A. (2016) · doi:10.7930/j0mg7mdx · Cited by 88
Metadata
- Authors
- Hanna, E., & Tait, P.
- Venue
- International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
- Publisher
- MDPI AG
- Published
- 2015-07-15
- Volume
- 12
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 8034-8074
- ISSN
- 1660-4601 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2150930940
- Cited by
- 334
- References
- 133
- FWCI
- 9.04
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Limitations to Thermoregulation and Acclimatization Challenge Human Adaptation to Global Warming. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.3390/ijerph120708034
- The paper
- Hanna, E., & Tait, P. (2015). Limitations to Thermoregulation and Acclimatization Challenge Human Adaptation to Global Warming. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph120708034
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
