A group of climatologists the day before announced a new discovery, arguing that humanity is mistaken if it thinks that global warming is just a matter of the next 100 years. As described in the journal Nature, climate change, which will play an important role in human existence, will last for as many as 10,000 years.
According to 22 climate researchers led by Oregon State University's Peter Clarke, the long-term effects of atmospheric emissions on global temperature and sea level changes will play out over millennia, not 100 years.
The main reason for these changes is that carbon dioxide remains in the atmosphere for a very long time before being slowly removed by natural processes. Much of the carbon released today and in the next 100 years will remain in the atmosphere for several hundred thousand years, the study noted. On the planet, sea levels will gradually level off as temperatures rise over a thousand years.
How the Earth will look in 10 thousand years depends only on people. It really depends on what humanity will do in the next hundred years, how many types of fuel will be left on Earth, to which there is relatively easy access. It also depends on how advanced technologies are developed that are able to extract carbon dioxide from the air on a huge scale, comparable to the amount that the world's population is currently emitting.
According to the forecasts of researchers, in 10 thousand years, if people continue to "exhaust" the Earth, ultimately, the air temperature on the planet will increase by 7 degrees Celsius, the sea level will be 52 meters higher than it is now. Greenland will "give up" all its ice, and Antarctica will remain almost 45 meters in height, "giving" its ice to rising sea levels, the study shows.
Scientists from all over the world raise this topic every day, providing the world community with all data related to global warming, it remains an open question whether such requests from representatives of the scientific world are heard by society and politicians of all states of the world.
Anna Petrova