what is the climate of the earth going to be like one hundred thousand years in the future?
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Read the article below and you start to understand how variable earth's climate has been and more than likely will continue being.\n\n\n\n\n\n\nClimatologists have used various techniques and evidence to reconstruct a history of the Earth's past climate. From this data they have found that during most of the Earth's history global temperatures were probably 8 to 15° Celsius warmer than today. In the last billion years of climatic history, warmer conditions were broken by glacial periods starting at 925, 800, 680, 450, 330, and 2 million years before present.\n\nThe period from 2,000,000 - 14,000 B.P. (before present) is known as the Pleistocene or Ice Age. During this period, large glacial ice sheets covered much of North America, Europe, and Asia for extended periods of time. The extent of the glacier ice during the Pleistocene was not static. The Pleistocene had periods when the glacier retreated (interglacial) because of warmer temperatures and advanced because of colder temperatures (glacial). During the coldest periods of the Ice Age, average global temperatures were probably 4 - 5° Celsius colder than they are today.\n\nThe most recent glacial retreat is still going on. We call the temporal period of this retreat the Holocene epoch. This warming of the Earth and subsequent glacial retreat began about 14,000 years ago (12,000 BC). The warming was shortly interrupted by a sudden cooling, known as the Younger-Dryas, at about 10,000 - 8500 BC. Scientists speculate that this cooling may have been caused by the release of fresh water trapped behind ice on North America into the North Atlantic Ocean. The release altered vertical currents in the ocean which exchange heat energy with the atmosphere. The warming resumed by 8500 BC. By 5000 to 3000 BC average global temperatures reached their maximum level during the Holocene and were 1 to 2° Celsius warmer than they are today. Climatologists call this period the Climatic Optimum. During the climatic optimum many of the Earth's great ancient civilizations began and flourished. In Africa, the Nile River had three times its present volume, indicating a much larger tropical region.\n\nFrom 3000 to 2000 BC a cooling trend occurred. This cooling caused large drops in sea-level and the emergence of many islands (Bahamas) and coastal areas that are still above sea-level today. A short warming trend took place from 2000 to 1500 BC, followed once again by colder conditions. Colder temperatures from 1500 - 750 BC caused renewed ice growth in continental glaciers and alpine glaciers, and a sea-level drop of between 2 to 3 meters below present day levels.\n\nThe period from 750 BC - 900 AD saw warming up to 150 BC. Temperatures, however, did not get as warm as the Climatic Optimum. During the time of Roman Empire (150 BC - 300 AD) a cooling began that lasted until about 900 AD. At its height, the cooling caused the Nile River (829 AD) and the Black Sea (800-801 AD) to freeze.\n\nThe period 900 - 1200 AD has been called the Little Climatic Optimum. It represents the warmest climate since the Climatic Optimum. During this period, the Vikings established settlements on Greenland and Iceland. The snow line in the Rocky Mountains was about 370 meters above current levels. A period of cool and more extreme weather followed the Little Climatic Optimum. A great drought in the American southwest occurred between 1276 and 1299. There are records of floods, great droughts and extreme seasonal climate fluctuations up to the 1400s.\n\nFrom 1550 to 1850 AD global temperatures were at their coldest since the beginning of the Holocene. Scientists call this period the Little Ice Age. During the Little Ice Age, the average annual temperature of the Northern Hemisphere was about 1.0 degree Celsius lower than today. During the period 1580 to 1600, the western United States experienced one of its longest and most severe droughts in the last 500 years. Cold weather in Iceland from 1753 and 1759 c
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depends on a number of factors, how hot its burning, ours should be around for a few more billion yrs.
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I choose a time period in the future... by at least 1000 years.  So... perhaps 3506.  Why?  Just to see how it all shakes out.  1000 to 1500 years might be enough time for humans to actually overcome human nature and truly advance.
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Well we've been through and ice age and a flood. I am guessing our planet will go up in a bid ball of fire...explains the ozone layer hey?
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Dont you worry, still about 50000 Odd years left for that!!!And Earthlings will probably perish long before that in a nuclear war!
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More than likely, you will find out within the next 100 years...
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I agree with the first answer.  That's nearly impossible to predict.  I have this book from the 70's that tried to predict where we would be by now and they had moon bases, flying cars, giant space stations, etcetra.  So they couldn't even figure out where we would be in 30 years let alone 1000.
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Average over the whole planet, over the whole year: -67 deg F\nExtremes: -207 deg F, 80 deg F
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the earth will probably not exist in the same fashion as it does today.  a meteor will probably hit us and start the life cycle again in the next 200 mill or so.  Probably more water and less land so i figure more water based life will exist
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Assuming that humans don't destroy the world...which is a pretty BIG assumption, I think maybe in a few thousand years the Earth's magnetic field may weaken to the point where it no longer deflects the harmful radiation from the sun and all life as we know it on this planet will cease to exist, and Earth will become very Mars-like...a very thin atmosphere and no surface water. But hey, that's just me.
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To see a future map of the globe for +250 million years go here:\nhttp://www.scotese.com/future2.htm\n\nYou will see the "Pangea Ultima" with North and South America up against Africa, and Africa against Eurasia. Australia and Antarctica are joined again. The present day Indian Ocean may be a landlocked sea.\n\nIn one billion years it is likely that the process of combining and separation of plates will have completed itself several times. There is no realistic way of projecting the plate motion this far in the future, since the rate of motion may change over time as the earth's heating from internal sources of radioactive decay gradually decreases.\n\nHere are some decay series in case you want to see what rate of decay will eventually begin effecting the planet's tectonics.\nhttp://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/nuclear/radser.html
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climate or atmosphere
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It is estimated that the point of no return is about 10 years.\nOh yeah it's not "saving the planet" but keeping the climate stable for life as we have enjoyed  it for the past 100k years.
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actually we saw a movie about this in science, we will not be alive because there will be an ice age that happens in cycles. think about it, we will not last because we do bad when it is only 30 degrees f outside. plus, 1 million years is not that long for evolution compared to the eras is the past ex precambrian was 3900 million years long.
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I am not sure that if there would be recorded  a year called 10000 in the future... I think it would be an optimistic guess to imagine 3000's... Don't forget!       The Judgement Day is approaching day by day... Well, if i supposed to say, human will be naked at the year 10000...
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One constant throughout the history of the planet is change. Mountains rise are are eroded. Continents drift apart and slam back together. \n\ntwo million years is a drop in the bucket geologically speaking. It is speculated that the north american plate will drift east (about an 1" a year.) so in 2 million years, that'd be 2 million inches. or about 37 miles east.. Erosion causes great changes over time as well. No substantial feature changes will take place, except we will return to a ice age era (currently we are in an interglacial period indicative of warming, and ice sheet retreats.. In the 180,000 year cycles of ebb and flow of the ice sheets we are getting closer to the sun at this point, do the math to see where our planet would be in the ice cycle, in 2 million years. \n\nWill humans be part of the planet in 2 million years? Could be, or could not. It's likely some evolution of us will exist and maybe not on this planet. Perhaps terraforming of Mars will have re-established it's climate. Ideally the earth is at a distance from the sun that provides the best option for life in this solar system for the next 15 billion years until the sun goes super red. \n\nIn 40-50 years I won't care. In a hundred to a hundred and 20 years people born today won't care either.
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Actually we are going for Global Warming, where all teh Ice is going to melt and probably flood alot of places, the atmosphere is gettinng thinner and more ultra violates are entering earth. P.S. did you see any Acorns? Keep looking for it...