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Scientists Reveal Date of Human Extinction on Planet Earth

May 3, 2024

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Scientists Reveal Date of Human Extinction on Planet Earth

If humans stopped burning fossil fuels today, the extinction of the planet would happen in 250 million years. This is the conclusion of a new study by the University of Bristol which, through computer simulations, found that by then all living beings on planet Earth would have to live in temperatures between 40ºC and 70ºC.

It would be the first mass extinction since the extinction of the dinosaurs around 66 million years ago.

But, according to the Daily Mail, the scientists’ calculations do not take into account the continued emission of greenhouse gases due, for example, to the burning of fossil fuels, so the date of the planet’s extinction will probably be even earlier.

“Humans – and many other species – would die out due to their inability to release heat through sweat, cooling their bodies,” Alexander Farnsworth, senior research associate at the University of Bristol’s School of Geographical Sciences, told the Daily Mail.

Scientists are certain that the Earth’s continents will slowly merge to form a hot, dry and largely uninhabitable mass. It will give rise to a super-continent, known as Pangea Ultima, and the Pacific Ocean would occupy most of the Earth’s surface.

For this study, scientists used computerized climate models to simulate temperature, wind, rain and humidity trends on Pangea Ultima. The results indicate that only between 8% and 16% of the earth would be habitable for mammals, but it is likely that all mammal species would become extinct. (CM)