An ominous glimpse into the future of every species on the planet is offered by a new climate modeling study.
Life on Earth has been affected by several mass extinction events over the last half a billion years, according to scientists. Climate change has historically triggered a number of natural factors including asteroids and volcanos.
Various species of plants and animals have had to adapt to survive over the course of climate catastrophes.
According to a new study published in the journal Biogeosciences, the human-made climate change we're dealing with today will likely take place over a smaller period of time than previous extinction events.
Over the course of about 60,000 years, there was a mass extinction. If Kaiho's worst-case prediction is true, the Earth could reach a 16-degree Fahrenheit increase in a few hundred years, enough to cause another event, but less time for evolution to catch up.
Kaiho found a correlation between the degree of temperature change and the plight of plants and animals. The harder it was for species to survive the more extreme the planetary heating or cooling was.
Humans, plants, and animals are already facing the consequences of climate change.
If humans will still be around by that time, we shouldn't leave all of the clean up to our ancestors.
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