The impact of increasing levels of carbon dioxide in the Earth's atmosphere will have a negative effect on the climate for at least another 1000 years, according to an article published in the journal Nature Geoscience , which predicts the collapse for the year 3000. of the ice sheets in West Antarctica and a sea level rise of at least four meters.
The authors, Shawn Marshall and his colleagues at the University of Calgary (Canada), simulated different climate evolution scenarios with the help of computers to find out what would happen if we stopped using fossil fuels and did not emit more CO 2 into the atmosphere from now on.
His conclusion is that the northern hemisphere would not begin to recover from warming until the end of this millennium , while the southern areas would take even longer to react. Thus, it is foreseeable that the continuous increase in temperatures in the southern hemisphere will cause by the year 3000 the desertification of 30% of the fertile lands of North Africa , as well as the disappearance of the ice sheets in West Antarctica, where the Ocean temperatures will rise five degrees Celsius.
