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It's twice as long before the earth's demise as previously thought
Last reviewed: 01.07.2025
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The scientific community has long been suggesting that humanity will only be able to survive in the distant future if it finds ways to move to another habitable planet. Living conditions in the future will become unbearable not only for humans, but for all living things on our planet due to excessively high temperatures, and it will be necessary to either find ways to survive on the hot ground among boiling waters or look for another habitable place that could replace Earth for humanity.
Recently, a research group at the University of Colorado concluded that we have much more time than previously thought to find possible ways to save ourselves. The scenario of the end of human existence on Earth has not changed: high air temperatures will lead to the evaporation of water on the planet, as a result of which all living things will die. Experts created a 3D model, after studying which they were able to determine how exactly the hydrosphere and atmosphere of the Earth will react to the increase in temperature. Having thoroughly analyzed statistical data since 1980, scientists concluded that every 110 million years our Earth will be heated by the sun by 1%, which means that the temperature will rise to the maximum limit in 1.5 billion years. E. Woolve, one of the authors of the research project, noted that now we have twice as much time to find a suitable planet for resettlement (earlier, scientists assumed that the Earth would end in 650 million years). According to scientists' forecasts, in 1.5 billion years the average temperature on Earth will reach 400C, which will make our planet similar to Venus, where all living organisms die due to high temperatures and lack of water.
However, the data that is voiced is not final, according to the experts themselves. During the modeling, scientists took into account natural processes, not all possible factors influencing global warming, but which have a huge impact on the climate of our planet, were taken into account.
A research group has recently made a forecast about natural disasters that threaten our planet. It turns out that large-scale disasters on earth, which are called "El Niño", as a result of rising temperatures in the Pacific Ocean and changes in the amount of precipitation may become more frequent this century.
In addition, greenhouse gases can lead to the planet running out of oxygen, and people will simply have nothing to breathe. This is the conclusion reached by experts from the magazine "Stock Market Leader" (section "Science News"). The highest level of carbon dioxide has been recorded in the Earth's atmosphere over the past 80 thousand years, which remains in the atmosphere for several hundred (and possibly several thousand) years and significantly affects climate change. Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, by the way, will continue to affect the climate for a long time, even if all possible emissions are stopped immediately.
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