Warming will bring Earth back to the Paleogene
Climatic changes are returning the Earth to the state in which it was long before the appearance of humans. According to Alexander Chernokulsky, a senior researcher at the Institute of Atmospheric Physics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the global temperature will soon rise as high as 35 million years ago, Vechernyaya Moskva reports.
This time is the Paleogene period, when the first ancestors of ungulates, marsupial mammals, condylyarras (“archaic ungulates”) and woolly wings (insectivores), as well as higher anthropoid primates and megafauna, for example, giant rhinos, appeared on Earth.
The scientist clarified that at that time the Earth looked completely different from what it is now. The continents were located differently, the glaciers were not so large, the ocean level and the chemical composition of the atmosphere were also different. But temperature indicators are increasingly being compared with modern ones.
The researchers analyzed temperature changes over the past 7 million years. Warming can follow different scenarios. In the worst case (when nothing is done to reduce greenhouse gas emissions), the planet will “return” to the distant past, and it is not known how this will affect the current ecosystems.
Earlier it was reported that scientists decided to save the world from warming with the whitest paint in the world. It effectively reflects light and heat and cools the surface.
Source: vm.ru.
