A group of scientists from the Georgia Institute, in the United States, and Toho University, in Japan, discussed what would happen if oxygen, the element of life for human beings, ceased to exist on Earth.
Life in function and movement occurs thanks to the absorption of oxygen and other components that, according to science, make the blue planet habitable. However, nothing is guaranteed in the atmosphere and, therefore, a study published in Nature Geoscience managed to calculate how long oxygen will last in the atmosphere.
In this research, led by scientists Christopher Reinhard and Kazumi Ozaki, he tried to address the possible scenario that humanity would face if oxygen disappeared completely, according to Semana.
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This is the date on which the Earth will run out of oxygen
The scientific theoretical basis that oxygen would possibly cease to exist due to global warming levels, the research predicted that life on Earth as it is known today would end in about 2 billion years, despite not take into account this environmental factor. In this way, the definitive calendar was given.
On other occasions, the research conglomerate had already addressed the issue, but with the arrival of the coronavirus and other social effects, such as the Russia-Ukraine conflict, it is estimated that the planet is on the line of “suffering more accelerated consequences.”
In the same aspect of the study, it is indicated that the focus is on the amount of rich oxygen adhered to the atmosphere and not on other factors that compromise biology. However, species were forgotten, with their extinction, and human actions severely impact the environment, variables that can affect the colorless and odorless gas found in the environment.
There is no exact time
According to the investigations, this case would not be as far-fetched as it seems to be, in fact, the idea that, at some point in human existence, the element of life is not present is not ruled out.
Indeed, it is argued that if the Earth experiences droughts where water is almost an illusion, due to global warming, gases such as methane rise and, consequently, the amount of oxygen decreases.
Although there is no exact time, they determined that it could happen in millions of years, since “for many years the useful life of the Earth’s biosphere is discussed based on the knowledge we have about the brightness of the Sun and the global geochemical cycle of carbonate silicate”, said Kazumi Ozaki, from the Asian institution. (I)
Source: Eluniverso
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