Tuesday 9 February 2016

How the earth may look like in the next 10000 years?

In the absence of any technology that could absorb the emitted carbon into the atmosphere since 1750s and with no clear cut energy policy on earth, what could be the future of the earth in the next 10000 years?

Earth in the next 10000 years
According to a research at Boston College in Massachusetts, USA, the co-author Jeremy Shakun put it forward the research findings. The study observes that our present actions would certainly have grave consequences in store for the civilizations in future as they would blame the past generations for every single development on earth.

The study predicts that at the rate of 10 gigatons of current carbon emission per year, which is expected to grow further as many developing countries on the earth are blindly following the development path of the developed countries. We are not only devastating the natural flora, fauna and greenery, leading to extinction of biodiversity, the alarming carbon emissions are here to pose  major threat for the humanity.

Rise in the temperature
Ever since the beginning of the Industrialization by 1750s, we have already emitted 580 billion metric tons, or gigatons of carbon in the atmosphere and it take longer period to get absorbed by the natural process. By next 100000 years, Carbon levels are expected to rise further by 5,120 gigatons if the current emission levels remain as it is.
It would grave threats to the humanity as 70% of the glaciers outside Antarctica and Greenland disappear due to 7◦ C rise in the temperature, leading to four meters of rise in sea levels. If the thermal expansion of the oceans further adds to this rising sea levels, it is expected to reach 25 meters rise in sea levels leading to a clean sweep of 1.3 billion populations living in the coastal areas of the globe.

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