Climate change could set up the Earth’s oceans for one of the worst mass extinction events over the next 300 years, according to Princeton University researchers.
Climate change could set up the Earth’s oceans for one of the worst mass extinction events in the planet’s history over the next 300 years, a new study published Thursday estimates, but the risk to marine life will plummet if greenhouse gas emissions are controlled.The study by researchers at Princeton University—published in the journal—used a model to estimate how various levels of Earth-warming greenhouse gas emissions would cause marine animals to lose their habitats and go extinct.
Under a high-emission scenario that causes global air temperatures to jump by 4.9 degrees Celsius over the next century and keep rising thereafter, around 30% of ocean-dwelling animals may go extinct by the year 2300, an event that would “rival the severity of past mass extinctions” over hundreds of millions of years.
These extinctions would be triggered by a increase in the ocean’s temperature, which threatens marine animals across the globe by both taking away their usual habitats and causing water toHowever, under a low-emission scenario that causes air temperature increases to stop at 1.9 degrees Celsius by 2100, the severity of any marine animal extinctions would shrink by 70%, the study found.
published by Princeton. “There’s still enough time to change the trajectory of CO2 emissions and prevent the magnitude of warming that would cause this mass extinction.”
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