How and when will life on Earth end? Study may have found the answers

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How and when will life on Earth end? Study may have found the answers

Attempting to

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and is a process that has had absolutely no luck in finding a time frame or date.

Given the amount of threats facing the world right now, whether it’s

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, it’s understandable that many people over time have made attempts at guessing the end of life on Earth. In fact, we even have

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that is ever-so close to striking midnight, spelling our doom if it hits that time. Well, according to its parameters it would, anyway.

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led by the University of Bristol seems to have pinpointed a cause and an approximate time for the demise of all living things on the planet.

However, there is no need to start panicking.

According to

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, in 250 million years from now, approximately, the unprecedented heat will likely lead to the demise of nearly mammals on the planet––the next mass extinction since the dinosaurs bid adieu.

Projected Earth temperature in 250 million years/University of Bristol

The image shows the warmest, average, monthly temperature (Celsius) for Earth, and the projected supercontinent (Pangea Ultima) in 250 million years, when it would be difficult for almost any mammals to survive. (University of Bristol)

That shouldn’t come as a surprise since the

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“The newly emerged supercontinent would effectively create a triple whammy, comprising the continentality effect, hotter sun and more (carbon dioxide) CO2 in the atmosphere, of increasing heat for much of the planet. The result is a mostly hostile environment devoid of food and water sources for mammals,” said Alexander Farnsworth, lead study author and senior research associate at the University of Bristol, in a

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“Widespread temperatures of between 40 C to 50 C, and even greater daily extremes, compounded by high levels of humidity, would ultimately seal our fate. Humans––along with many other species–– would expire due to their inability to shed this heat through sweat, cooling their bodies.”

Earth’s continents to eventually merge into a single, ‘largely uninhabitable’ mainland

The analysis incorporated and presented the first-ever supercomputer climate models of the future, showing how weather extremes will significantly escalate once the world’s continents eventually merge to form one hot, dry and largely uninhabitable supercontinent.

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The next supercontinent will be known as Pangea Ultima, also referred to as Pangea Proxima, with an approximate time frame of coming to fruition in

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As part of the process to determine what could lead to the demise of mammals millions of years from now, a group of scientists incorporated climate models to run simulations of various data–temperatures, wind, rain and humidity trends for the future Pangea Ultima formation.

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that far in the future, those involved in the study used models of tectonic plate movement, ocean chemistry and biology to pinpoint inputs and outputs of CO2, according to the university.

Benjamin Mills, a professor at the University of Leeds, led the futuristic CO2 calculations.

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“We think CO2 could rise from around 400 parts per million (ppm) today to more than 600 ppm many millions of years in the future. Of course, this assumes that humans will stop burning fossil fuels. Otherwise, we will see those numbers much, much sooner,” said Mills, in the

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The results of the simulation highlights

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will increase even further, the study said, with the sun set to grow brighter, discharging more energy and warming the Earth even more.

In addition to the increase of the world’s temperatures in the future, the

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, occurring in the Earth’s crust and creating a supercontinent formation, would bring about a rise in volcanic eruptions––which generate

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––leading to additional heating of the planet, researchers say.

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“This work also highlights that a world within the so-called ‘habitable zone’ of a solar system may not be the most hospitable for humans depending on whether the continents are dispersed, as we have today, or in one large supercontinent,” said Alexander J. Farnsworth, a visiting professor at the Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research (ITP) at the ******** Academy of Sciences, in the

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But, despite the further

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as time progresses on a shorter time scale, resulting to

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to indicate that Earth “should largely remain habitable” until the creation of Pangea Ultima.

However, when the time comes for the supercontinent formation, findings from researchers note that only between eight per cent and 16 per cent of land would be livable for mammals.

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