:quality(80):format(jpeg)/posts/2022-12/10/featured-b42f6bf1dbcd541b2b5d1017a0d97342_1670646714-b.jpg "It is said that the amount of oxygen on Earth will disappear one day, when?")
Human beings currently live in the world thanks to the presence of oxygen on earth. However, the condition of the earth will not last forever. Scientists predict that in the future the Earth’s atmosphere will once again be rich in methane and poor in oxygen.
This happened over a period of perhaps more than 1 billion years. But when change comes, it can happen quickly, according to 2021 research in Nature Geoscience.
This shift is what causes the earth to revert to its pre-Great Oxidation Event (GOE) or Great Oxidation Event state about 2.4 billion years ago.
Furthermore, many researchers explain that the oxygen in the atmosphere cannot be a permanent feature that makes it habitable.
Illustration of planet earth (cnbc)
“The model predicts that atmospheric deoxygenation, with atmospheric O2 falling sharply to levels reminiscent of Archaean Earth, will likely be triggered before the onset of humid greenhouse conditions in the Earth’s climate system and before extensive loss of surface water from the atmosphere,” the researchers wrote, explained in their paper.
At the time, researchers revealed that human life obviously depended on oxygen.
To reach their conclusions, the researchers then built detailed models of the Earth’s biosphere that accounted for changes in the brightness of the sun and corresponding decreases in carbon dioxide levels due to gases broken down by increased heat.
