{"id":36026,"date":"2017-04-10T15:02:22","date_gmt":"2017-04-10T22:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/life-on-earth-to-hit-brick-wall-in-another-500-million-years"},"modified":"2017-06-04T07:05:25","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T14:05:25","slug":"life-on-earth-to-hit-brick-wall-in-another-500-million-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/04\/life-on-earth-to-hit-brick-wall-in-another-500-million-years","title":{"rendered":"Life On Earth To Hit Brick Wall In Another 500 Million Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/life-on-earth-to-hit-brick-wall-in-another-500-million-years.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>From the archives.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Our Earth and Sun continue to have a delicate relationship. Credit: Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center.<\/p>\n<p>Complex life here on earth will hit a habitability wall in only 500 million years; not in an almost languorous 1.75 billion years, as reported in a recent global media flap.<\/p>\n<p>The flap \u2014 spurred by a paper in the journal <em>Astrobiology<\/em> \u2014 failed to cover earth\u2019s future carbon dioxide (CO2) \u201ccompensation limit,\u201d says James Kasting, a prominent planetary scientist at Penn State University, whose own models were used by the paper\u2019s authors.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2013\/10\/23\/life-on-earth-to-hit-brick-wall-in-500-million-years\/#295dad0d3ee5\">https:\/\/www.forbes.com\/sites\/brucedorminey\/2013\/10\/23\/life-o...5dad0d3ee5<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the archives. Our Earth and Sun continue to have a delicate relationship. Credit: Image Science and Analysis Laboratory, NASA-Johnson Space Center. Complex life here on earth will hit a habitability wall in only 500 million years; not in an almost languorous 1.75 billion years, as reported in a recent global media flap. The flap [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":380,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism","category-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36026","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\/380"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36026"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58113,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36026\/revisions\/58113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}