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This is Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute.
About a billion years from now, some scientists say, the sun will be too bright for comfort, and our formerly1 hospitable2 planet will no longer be able to support life. If visions of this impending3 heat death disturb you, researchers from the California Institute of Technology have some good news. Their calculations add at least another billion years to Earth’s expiration4 date, results published in the Proceedings5 of the National Academy of Sciences.
As our sun matures it grows brighter and hotter. And over the past three or four billion years, the Earth’s been coping with the extra rays by getting rid of some of the CO2 in the atmosphere. Thinning out the CO2 that blankets the earth helps to keep things cool. But that can’t go on forever because we’d be left with no blanket at all.
Now the Caltech scientists say that the planet may be able to compensate6 by removing nitrogen from the atmosphere. That’ll decrease atmospheric7 pressure, which will then loosen the weave of the CO2 blanket and allow more heat to escape. So stop and smell the roses. We may have an additional billion years to figure out this extreme case of global warming.
Thanks for the minute for Scientific American's 60-second Science. I'm Karen Hopkin.
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adj.好客的;宽容的;有利的,适宜的 | |
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a.imminent, about to come or happen | |
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n.终结,期满,呼气,呼出物 | |
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n.进程,过程,议程;诉讼(程序);公报 | |
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vt.补偿,赔偿;酬报 vi.弥补;补偿;抵消 | |
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adj.大气的,空气的;大气层的;大气所引起的 | |
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