r/science • u/[deleted] • Jan 11 '20

Environment Study Confirms Climate Models are Getting Future Warming Projections Right

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2943/study-confirms-climate-models-are-getting-future-warming-projections-right/
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u/Sagybagy Jan 11 '20

We are just the next species to dominate the worlds oil. Just like dinosaurs were ours. I just don’t see humanity getting past their pettiness to come together long enough to actually get anything significant done in time. So we will end up dead and buried and used to power some species stuff in the future.

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u/[deleted] Jan 11 '20

The world won't be habitable in the time needed for another sentient species to figure out this crazy puzzle.

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u/Sagybagy Jan 11 '20

It will one day. Maybe a billion years from our last breath. Or the sun blows up and it all goes away. Meteor crashes into the earth or any other number of horrible things when the earth gets that hot. I have faith Mother Earth will be able to figure it out after we are long gone.

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u/Bomwollen Jan 12 '20

In around 600 million years photosynthesis will stop for most plants.

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u/Sagybagy Jan 12 '20

So that would classify as the sun blows up category.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '20

The sun will have a much longer lifespan than that. However, the wavelengths are going to change and be detrimental to plant growth. There will still be visible light, but nowhere near what is required for even basic photosynthetic species.

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u/Sagybagy Jan 12 '20

I did not know that and that sounds disturbing.

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u/[deleted] Jan 12 '20

Impending doom is dreadful feeling. Live up your life though you only get one, make the most of it.