“Hell on Earth.” It seems that this saying will become a reality, after the effect of runaway global warming was completely simulated on Earth for the first time, through a recent study that was revealed during the past few hours.
Scientists have for the first time simulated all stages of runaway global warming, and found that our green planet could turn into an uninhabitable “hell” in the coming centuries.
“Earth would only need to warm by a few tens of degrees to trigger runaway global warming, making it as uninhabitable as Venus, a planet with an average surface temperature of about 464 degrees Celsius (867 degrees Fahrenheit),” according to NASA.
According to scientists at the University of Geneva (UNIGE), who conducted the study, with support from the French CNRS laboratories in Paris and Bordeaux, the greenhouse effect is the process by which some gases in the Earth’s atmosphere trap the sun’s heat.
A shocking study on the impact of global warming on planet Earth
The runaway greenhouse effect was examined in the study, which confirmed that it occurs when increased solar radiation leads to a significant and increasing rise in the planet’s temperature.
According to the study published in the Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, the research was designed in part to provide a tool for studying the climate on other planets, particularly so-called exoplanets that orbit stars other than the Sun, and to help determine their ability to host life.
It also highlighted the risks to the Earth’s climate in the coming centuries.
Will Earth turn into a planet uninhabitable for life?
Scientists have made a comparison about the difference between Earth, a brilliant blue-green dot covered in oceans and life, and Venus, a sterile sulfur planet, which is the hottest in our solar system.
The study confirmed that a very small increase in solar radiation would lead to an increase in global Earth’s temperature of only a few tens of degrees, which would be enough to trigger this wild and irreversible process on Earth and make our planet uninhabitable like Venus.
