{"id":173388,"date":"2023-10-03T19:22:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-04T00:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-say-earth-will-become-a-barren-wasteland"},"modified":"2023-10-03T19:22:35","modified_gmt":"2023-10-04T00:22:35","slug":"scientists-say-earth-will-become-a-barren-wasteland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/scientists-say-earth-will-become-a-barren-wasteland","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Say Earth Will Become a Barren Wasteland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-say-earth-will-become-a-barren-wasteland2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I WOULD SUSPECT IF WE CAN GET OFF THIS PLANET AND FIND SOMEWHERE MORE HABITABLE, THAT WOULD BE MORE PREFERABLE.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The world\u2019s land masses are, a new super-charged climate model suggests, going to form into one giant supercontinent \u2014 and if humans manage to survive the shift, we will become like the inhabitants of Arrakis, the desert planet at the heart of the \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/futurism.com\/dune-nft-project-back-altar\" class=\"\">Dune<\/a>\u201d series.<\/p>\n<p>A new study led by researchers at the University of Bristol and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-023-01259-3\" class=\"\">published in the journal<\/a> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41561-023-01259-3\" class=\"\">Nature Geosciences<\/a> <\/em>predicts that over the next 250 million years, the continents will shift to form what they\u2019re calling \u201cPangea Ultima,\u201d an uber-hot supercontinent that will be inhospitable to most mammals due to the conditions that made it.<\/p>\n<p>Specifically, the environmental and geophysical researchers predict in their study that the volcanic activity from the tectonic shifting \u2014 and the subsequent rise in carbon dioxide to potentially more than double Earth\u2019s current levels \u2014 would make most of the land on Pangea Ultima \u201cbarren,\u201d according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-023-03005-6\" class=\"\"><em>Nature<\/em> summary of the study<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I WOULD SUSPECT IF WE CAN GET OFF THIS PLANET AND FIND SOMEWHERE MORE HABITABLE, THAT WOULD BE MORE PREFERABLE. The world\u2019s land masses are, a new super-charged climate model suggests, going to form into one giant supercontinent \u2014 and if humans manage to survive the shift, we will become like the inhabitants of Arrakis, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":702,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-173388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/702"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=173388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/173388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=173388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=173388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=173388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}