The debate on climate change is gaining increasingly real and alarming information about how the future of the planet will be affected by catastrophic scenarios. Forecasts already consider that the world will face temperatures of up to 70°C and a reorganization that will create a supercontinent.
Published by the University of Bristol in the scientific journal Nature, the study brought together British and Swiss researchers to determine projections for life on Earth 250 million years from now.
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Firstly, the result predicts a supercontinent which will happen when all the continents will come together to form a new territorial configuration. Named Pangea Ultima, this territory will be formed due to tectonic plates and volcanic eruptions.
However, Pangea Ultima is not the only alarming factor in the study. According to researchers, extreme temperatures will take over the world.
In 2023, the world and Brazil are already facing higher temperatures to 40ºC in several regions, but current temperatures will be exceeded at drastic levels in the future, determining the end of many species in a “hot, dry and largely uninhabitable” world.
Thus, planetary habitability will be affected by climate extremes that will drive all terrestrial mammals to extinction.
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The formation of planet Earth was made of great climate changes. Therefore, the evolution of mammals went through an adaptation process, creating thermoregulatory mechanisms to survive the temperatures.
In the future, the Sun will emit more energy than it does today, creating an uninhabitable environment for mammal life.
Possibly, only migratory mammal species will be able to survive, but even so, the “strategy migratory movement can be dangerous for mammals due to the deserts and aridity across the continent”, point out the researchers. scientists.
Furthermore, heat will have an impact on the activity of volcanic eruptions, increasing the release of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, which will consequently increase the planet's temperature.
“The supercontinent could create a triple whammy that would comprise the effect of continentality, hotter sun and more CO2 in the atmosphere”, explained Alexander Farnsworth, a researcher at the University of Bristol who led the study.
