Chapter 168: The world is extremely hot! What will happen if the earth warms by 5 degrees?

A new sky appeared.

A king cobra appeared on the sky.

Many ancient people were frightened when they saw this giant snake for the first time!
But then, everyone saw many people surrounding the giant king cobra and pouring water on it, as if the king cobra was very hot.

At the same time, the commentary on the sky screen sounded.

Everyone knows.

Or to confirm that the snake on the sky is indeed very hot.

[Recently, the temperature in New Delhi, the capital of India, reached 49.9 degrees! It broke the highest temperature record of 2022 degrees in 49.2. 】

Thanks to the canopy, it has the function of automatically converting units.

So the ancients could also understand it.

What does a temperature of 49.9 degrees mean!
Understood.

then……

The ancient people, from the Qin Emperor and Han Emperor to the Tang Emperor and Song Emperor, were all frightened.

Ying Zheng: "I know that the further south you go, the higher the temperature. I also know that India is a relatively southern country, but 49.9 degrees Celsius?"

“Isn’t this a bit exaggerated?”

Li Shimin also said in disbelief:
"Such a hot place is simply not suitable for human survival! How can people in later generations endure it?"

"Is the India that Wang Xuance went to so terrifying?"

The temperature in New Delhi, India is 49.9.

Even modern netizens would be shocked, let alone the ancient people.

Needless to say, those ancient people who lived in the cold ice age.

Even the ancient people who lived in a warm climate like the Tang Dynasty could hardly imagine how hot the temperature of around 50 degrees could be!
At this temperature, people are basically unable to work.

Just when the ancients were still marveling at the terrible temperatures in New Delhi.

A new sky dome video has appeared again.

[On May 52.9, India experienced extreme high temperatures, with the highest temperature reaching degrees! ]

The ancient people outside the sky.

I stared in amazement at the map of India on the temperature map, which turned from red to black.

And a large number of barrages also flew out.

"On May 52.9th, the temperature was 60 degrees. Wouldn't it be degrees on June th?"

"Are the brothers who studied abroad there still alive?"

"According to the battle situation sent by overseas students on the front line, they said that it was very hot in India during the day, but only 40 degrees at night, which was not bad."

《Snake, I’m about to turn into a hot-blooded animal! 》

"A Tribute to the Legendary Windbreak, the Himalayas."

"To be honest, India is so hot, in part because of the Himalayas."

"It seems like I know why tropical regions are generally less developed."

"It is said that before Singapore developed, the first thing it did was to popularize air conditioning. Otherwise, it would not have been able to develop at all."

"There is a saying that humans will become lazy if they are exposed to high temperatures for a long time."

"In Singapore, people use air conditioning like crazy, just to make sure they can develop well."

"The local people in India are so miserable. They need to be cooked to death."

"That's right! When it's June or July, won't it be extremely hot?"

"Although ordinary people there are indeed miserable, the climate in India is actually the hottest in April and May, and it will be much better in June and July."

"It seems that when the temperature is above 40 degrees, many air conditioners will not work, right?"

"It seems that many ordinary people there don't expect to be able to afford air conditioning."

"Tsk! Third brother still can't stand it, it's only 52 degrees, that summer of August ..."

……

Modern netizens are discussing the issue of high temperatures.

The ancients were shocked by the high temperatures.

A related video also appeared immediately after the new sky curtain video.

It is also high temperature.

Only more exaggerated!

It is extremely high temperature around the world.

[Super global warming, a global fever lasting 20 years! ]

[The term global warming is probably familiar to netizens. ]

【We are now in an era of global warming. 】

[But the era of global warming we are in pales in comparison to the era of global fever I will describe today.]

[Global warming right now is nothing but child's play!]

[During that ultimate global super warming, the surface temperature of the earth rose by 6 to 8 degrees Celsius in just years! ]

[Global red temperature, the earth has entered a terrifying steamer mode! ]

[This event is the famous Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum! ]

[This event was brief, but it had a profound impact on the evolution of life on Earth.]

[The power is no less than an extinction event! ]

……

《Bullet screen: Is this really that exaggerated? What kind of extinction event? Marketing account!》

"It's only six degrees. I remember when I was a kid, the highest temperature in my area in summer was 33 degrees. But in the past two years, the highest temperature was 39 degrees, which was a 6-degree increase. Didn't you still hold on?"

"That's right! Raising the pitch by six or seven octaves is not a big problem at all!"

"As long as the temperature doesn't rise above 40 degrees, everything will be OK."

"Can you say this is a rapid warming?"

"Humanity can reach three degrees Celsius in a hundred years!"

"The Industrial Revolution: Give the Earth a Little Human Warming Shock!"

"In the face of global warming caused by human industrial pollution, a mere 3 degrees is nothing to mention."

……

It can be said that basically, what netizens see as the so-called exaggerated extreme heat events is nothing more than an increase of about six degrees in 20,000 years.

Everyone scoffed at this.

Netizens said: "A temperature increase of a few degrees will indeed have an impact on the environment."

"For example, it will make the north suitable for growing rice, make Tubo an agricultural empire, and allow elephants to live in the Yellow River basin."

"But that's about it."

"The extreme heat events in ancient times cannot be compared with those today."

Amidst the voices of doubt, the sky curtain continues
Canopy.

[First of all, we need to understand what a surface temperature of 6 degrees Celsius means! ]

[This is not as simple as today is cloudy and the temperature is 30 degrees, and tomorrow is sunny and the temperature is 36 degrees. ]

[If the global average surface temperature rises by six degrees, it will be an absolute reshuffle of the ecological environment! ]

[A 1 degree rise in the global average means a 3.5 degree rise in the Mediterranean region and a 6 degree rise in the Arctic! ]

[As temperatures rise, glaciers and ice sheets in the ocean will melt, causing sea levels to rise.]

[Precipitation will increase in some areas, while precipitation may decrease in other areas, such as North my country.]

[If it rises by 3 degrees, that would be terrible.]

[Most of the Earth's land may turn into arid deserts, low-lying land in coastal areas will be flooded, most animals may disappear from the Earth, and the Amazon rainforest will not be able to withstand the Amazon desert! ] [This is already the case at 3 degrees, so what about a global rise of 5 degrees? ]

[For those of us living in the temperate zone of the Northern Hemisphere, this is equivalent to a temperature rise of 15 degrees! ]

【Most of the land will be flooded.】

[Most areas on Earth will no longer be suitable for human survival.]

[It is also difficult for most animals to adapt to temperature changes in a short period of time, and they become extinct in large numbers. ]

[Although the Arctic today will become a tropical rain forest. 】

【But 90% of the existing species on Earth will become extinct! 】

[This is the terrifying power of an extreme heat event! ]

[The origin of this event can be traced back to an asteroid impact on Earth 65 million years ago.]

[In the 10 million years after the asteroid hit the Earth, the average temperature of the Earth rose rapidly. In just 10 million years, the global average temperature rose by three degrees! ]

[The magnitude is very exaggerated! ]

【But now comes the real show! 】

[Extreme heat event.]

[The global average temperature rose by five to eight degrees in an instant! ]

[According to different opinions, some believe that the temperature has risen by more than five degrees within 20,000 years.]

[There are even more radical claims that global temperatures have risen by more than six degrees in just thirteen years! ]

[Even if 20,000 years is used as the time, it is still too fast! ]

[In geology, these 20,000 years are just a blink of an eye.]

[It passed in the blink of an eye. 】

[This is no longer a simple rise in temperature, but an explosive global barbecue! ]

……

Tang Dynasty.

Li Longji was extremely surprised.

"I know that the Tang Dynasty has caught up with a good period. The current Tang Dynasty is a warm era."

"So the grain production in Datang can be higher."

"This is a blessing for our Tang Dynasty."

"But I never thought about what would happen if the temperature continued to rise."

"It seems that a moderately high level is good for the Tang Dynasty."

"But if the temperature rises too much, it could be disastrous."

The previous comments made light of the extreme heat event.

I can't take it easy now.

《Bullet screen: Oh my god, this is so hot, isn’t it? 》

《Scary! I was careless before!》

"Who can withstand the global red temperature?"

"If a human stays outside at 40 degrees for a few hours, they may die from heat stroke."

《Could it be related to solar activity? 》

"Public intellectuals: Global warming is because you guys at Dongda eat too much beef!"

[As for why the temperature rises so high in such a short time. ]

[There is still no conclusion.]

[It has become an unsolved mystery in the academic community.]

[There is a theory that 55 million years ago, a comet carrying a large amount of dry ice or methane hit the earth, causing the content of greenhouse gases in the air to soar rapidly in a short period of time.]

[This will lead to a significant increase in the global greenhouse effect, causing global temperatures to rise rapidly.]

[Commonly known as the explosion of stars when in doubt! 】

[This statement can explain the reason clearly. ]

[But there is no evidence that a comet hit the Earth 5500 million years ago.]

【So it can only be an unreliable statement. 】

[To this day, the academic community still cannot find a reasonable explanation with sufficient evidence. This is because this extremely hot event happened too quickly! It took only 200,000 years from the beginning of the eruption to the temperature returning to normal!]

【Two hundred thousand years is just a blink of an eye in geology.】

[The smallest unit in geology is often based on 100 million years.]

[It is normal that the time is too short to leave too many geological traces. ]

[Among the many hypotheses that have no direct evidence, I prefer the combustible ice hypothesis. ]

[The first is that the Earth was already in a phase of rapid warming in the 10 million years before the PETM.]

[In 10 million years, the average temperature rose by three degrees, and then the quantitative change led to a qualitative change, and the temperature broke through the critical point! ]

【Global warming has caused the sea temperature to rise rapidly. 】

[The glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic are melting in large quantities. ]

[The warm current awakens the ancient seal sleeping in the deep sea, which is combustible ice. ]

【Methane hydrate is not ice.】

[Although it sleeps in the extremely cold place deep in the sea, the combustible ice actually contains a super greenhouse gas! Methane! ]

[Due to global warming, after the quantitative change caused the qualitative change, a large amount of combustible ice in the world melted, releasing a huge amount of methane gas. ]

[Methane is a greenhouse gas that is dozens of times more powerful than carbon dioxide! ]

[After the methane hydrate is released into the atmosphere, a super greenhouse effect is quickly formed on a global scale! ]

[Furthermore, more deep-sea methane hydrate melts, causing more methane gas to enter the atmosphere.]

[Under the cycle effect, it took only 20,000 years.]

[Even over the course of thirteen years, the temperature of the Earth has skyrocketed like a fever! ]

[During this extremely hot period, the mountains and rivers in the polar regions ushered in their golden age. ]

[The glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic have disappeared, and even the frigid regions are covered with lush forests.]

[There were even tropical rainforests in the Arctic Circle at that time. ]

[The tropical regions maintain sauna weather. ]

[Most animals cannot adapt to tropical weather in the red BUFF state.]

[Some of the tenacious creatures cannot adapt to such a rapid temperature increase. ]

[But some people adapted strongly and then...]

[Because methane gas cannot exist stably in the atmosphere, a large amount of methane was diffused in the atmosphere at that time. ]

【Or blend into the oxygen. 】

[Or it just drifted away into outer space. ]

[As the methane gas disappears, the Earth's temperature gradually returns to the level before the extreme heat event.]

【So, in just 200,000 years. 】

[The average temperature of the earth soared rapidly, and then fell back rapidly! ]

The drastic temperature changes make it difficult for many organisms to adapt.

This triggered a mass extinction.

When the commentators saw this, they all shouted in unison:
"I finally adapted to the environment, but you made me lose so completely."

《愺！》

(End of this chapter)