Global climate cooling around 500 million years ago may have triggered Earth's largest surge in marine biodiversity, according to a study published in Nature Communications. The causes behind this increase in biodiversity during the Ordovician period are unclear, but the study suggests that global cooling played a significant role. The research used a numerical model to demonstrate how climate cooling could have triggered biodiversification at that time. Another study published in Communications Earth reports that changes in ocean temperature and oxygen levels could lead to a centuries-long irreversible loss in the habitable volume of the upper 1000m of the world ocean, impacting organisms' metabolic functioning. Additionally, it is predicted that in about 250 million years, all of today's major land masses will merge into one, potentially leading to an extremely hot climate that is uninhabitable for mammals. These findings highlight the long-term effects of climate change on the planet's biodiversity and climate.
Changes in ocean temperature and oxygen could drive a centuries-long irreversible loss in the habitable volume of the upper 1000 m of the world ocean due the impact on organisms’ metabolic functioning, reports a study published in @CommsEarth. https://t.co/2JLxa6Qe2a https://t.co/fYAQPG4T1c
A period of global cooling around 500 million years ago may have triggered Earth’s largest surge in marine biodiversity. https://t.co/SVOuTmS8NC
The Great Ordovician Biodiversification Event may have been primarily driven by global cooling about 500 million years ago, leading to the largest increase in marine biodiversity in Earth’s history, suggests a @NatureComms paper. https://t.co/M7y4YmH2A2 https://t.co/TAtWZEBu37
Even temporary global warming above 2℃ will affect life in the oceans for centuries, new study finds - https://t.co/H4lQSAUYk8 https://t.co/5M3bpP4fUE
The ocean is being emptied, bulldozed, and poisoned into collapse as global industrial capitalism condemns Earth's species to rapid mass extinction at 1.5/2°C of global warming and rising by 2021- 2040. https://t.co/3eSSMFy9bE
Impact of global climate cooling on Ordovician marine biodiversity | Nature Communications https://t.co/kBPfkDLcW5
The causes behind the increase in marine biodiversity during the Ordovician, nearly 500 million years ago, are unclear. Ontiveros et al. use a numerical model to demonstrate that global climate cooling may have triggered biodiversification at that time. https://t.co/683uT4oh6y
In about 250 million years, all of today’s major land masses will pile together into one. And when they do, it could tip our planet’s climate into an extremely hot state almost entirely uninhabitable for mammals. https://t.co/McgczYkQhP
A period of global cooling around 500 million years ago may have triggered Earth’s largest surge in marine biodiversity. https://t.co/OHeKDKFTQF