REPUBLIKA.CO.ID, JAKARTA — According to a new climate model, the world’s landmass will shift into one giant, barren supercontinent. Then if humans manage to survive this phenomenon, we will be like the residents of Arrakis, the desert planet in the movie “Dune”.
A new study led by researchers at the University of Bristol and published in the journal Nature Geosciences predicted that in the next 250 million years, the continents would shift into what they called “Pangea Ultima”. This term is defined as a continent that is very hot and inhospitable to most mammals due to the conditions that form it.
In particular, environmental and geophysical researchers predict that volcanic activity from tectonic shifts will make most of the land in Pangea Ultima barren.
As the University of Bristol notes about this disturbing research, the latest climate modeling supercomputer found that Earth would have experienced average temperatures of more than 100 degrees Celsius during the formation of Pangea Ultima, due to CO2 ejected into the atmosphere from tectonic volcanic activity.
Worse yet, the Sun would have been 2.5 percent brighter during Pangea Ultima’s formation period, which would have caused an increase in solar radiation that would have made things even hotter. This process would not only wipe out mammalian life as we know it, but also most plant life.
The study’s lead author, Alexander Farnsworth, told Nature that although humans might survive long enough to walk on Pangea Ultima, they would live like the humans depicted in Frank Herbert’s famous science fiction series “Dune,” which depicts the lives of the fabled Fremen tribe. live in the desert.
“Are humans becoming more [terspesialisasi] in a desert environment, being more active at night, or living in a cave? “I suspect if we could get off this planet and find a more habitable place, that would be better,” Farnsworth said as reported Futurism, Saturday (30/9/2023).
As scary as it sounds, German geologist Hannah Davies, who was not involved in the research, points out that extinction events have occurred repeatedly in Earth’s history. Therefore, the shift to Pangea Ultima will definitely happen again.
“There have been extinction events in the past, and there will be extinction events in the future. I think life will make it through this time. It’s just kind of a bleak period,” Davies, who works at Germany’s GFZ Geoscience Research Center, told Nature.
Surprisingly, the modeling carried out by the school does not take into account human-caused carbon emissions.
2023-09-30 07:31:40
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