According to the scientist, by 2100 the temperature of the world will increase by 4.4 degrees, and the limit of nine degrees will be reached no earlier than 2500.
The inhabitants of Earth are waiting for another mass extinction. The coming “end of the world” is the sixth for our planet. Biogeosciences wrote this on Monday, August 1, citing a study by Japanese climatologist Kunio Kaiho.
The publication writes that the expert made his conclusions on the basis of data on global temperatures, Earth and soil temperatures during periods of past extinctions, including data on species that have disappeared before.
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In addition to the six largest periods of extinction – the Ordovician, Devonian, Permian, Triassic, Cretaceous-Paleogene and the current Holocene, Kaiho also considers not the largest mass extinction of species.
A comparative analysis of these figures showed that the number of dead species is linearly dependent on temperature anomalies in their habitat.
After analyzing the information, he came to the conclusion that the temperature on Earth will rise to a critical level by the year 2500.
In the study, he points out that earlier extinctions were slower and that temperatures may have risen over millennia. today, destructive processes occur more rapidly, which “severely reduces the ability of living populations to adapt to changes and may cause more accelerated extinctions.”
“The source of problems for the biosphere today is man and his economic activity,” the scientist stressed.
It can be recalled that plant growth has accelerated in Antarctica due to climate change, indicating a serious threat to the fragile ecosystem of the region..
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