Japanese Climatologist Predicts Sixth Mass Extinction
Japanese climatologist Kunio Kaiho has developed a new diagram that reflects mass extinctions of species. He has also described how this process can begin and has attempted to predict when the next end of the world may occur. He emphasized that our planet is now facing its sixth mass extinction.
Over the past 540 million years, our planet has repeatedly lost a large portion of its species diversity over a relatively short period of time. Such events are called mass extinctions and often occur after global climate changes, cooling, or warming.
Kaiho attempted to quantitatively assess the relationship between the Earth’s average temperature and the planet’s biodiversity. As a result, he established that there is a linear relationship. The more the temperature changes, the more noticeable the change in biodiversity.
Various factors related to human activity were taken into account during the study. He found that global warming, among many other reasons, could lead to the mass extinction of all living species soon, if humans do not start trying to change the situation. Mass extinction will become the sixth for our planet.
Many experts believe that extinction will occur by 2100. Kunio Kaiho’s calculations have shown that these data are too exaggerated. The climatologist believes that only by 2500 will the average temperature on the planet rise to a critical level. The expert analyzed information about the temperature during past extinctions, as well as data on extinct species.
