Have you ever wondered what would happen to the planet if we allowed the earth's extreme weather to occur frequently, and the average global temperature plummeted by 40 degrees Celsius overnight one day? Will we survive?
There will be a process of change when the temperature plummets overnight.
When the global temperature drops by 1 degree Celsius, most people on earth do not feel the abnormality.
Because the change of just 1 degree Celsius is almost negligible in the eyes of us ordinary people, the vast majority of people do not feel abnormal.
However, for the meteorological department, this sudden drop of 1 degree Celsius is particularly unusual.
The meteorological staff on duty also vaguely felt a little uneasy.
When the temperature drops, the biggest change should be in water, including the earth's oceans, lakes, and so on.
However, because the specific heat capacity of the ocean is relatively large, these temperature drops have basically no big impact on the ocean, and the average temperature of the ocean has only dropped by 0.01 degrees Celsius.
But for polar glaciers, even a 1-degree Celsius change, whether it increases or decreases, can have huge ripple effects on a global scale.
Doom is coming, but most people are still unaware of it.
Forty-five minutes have passed, and the global temperature has dropped by 5 degrees Celsius.
The temperature was enough for some of those who were still outside to feel the drop in temperature, and the weather department staff had been called back to work overtime to analyze why the global temperature had suddenly dropped by 5 degrees Celsius.
Eventually, they will find that the decrease in global temperature over the past hour is linear.
Based on the above data, meteorologists speculate that global temperatures will drop by 40 degrees Celsius by the next morning.
Some have even put forward the apocalyptic theory, believing that a sudden temperature change may be a warning sign from the earth.
The meteorological department will report such anomalies to the higher authorities and warn people that they should actively look for ways to escape.
However, most people will think that this statement is alarmist, and this time period is a break time, and the warning news has not been spread in time.
As time goes by, the global average temperature has dropped more and more significantly.
People who know this are increasingly anxious, wondering why global temperatures are suddenly dropping or how to convince everyone that the end of the world is coming.
Soon, however, more and more people felt the abnormality of the weather, not only those who were outdoors felt the cold, but also those who were resting indoors felt that something was wrong.
Through the constant spread of news and the government's warnings, people have come to believe that something is going on on the planet, and that the end may even be at hand.
As a result, people will rush to the streets to grab survival supplies, the government will call on everyone to enter bomb shelters, and all cities with heating will urgently start heating mode.
But these things are not doing much to curb the sudden drop in global temperatures, and can only protect as many people as possible.
Three hours later,.
People began to despair, believing that the end of the world had come. At this time, it is also time to measure a country's ability to coordinate and respond to disasters.
A responsible and responsible country will appease the people's emotions at the first time, and quickly make an early warning plan to remind the people of the correct escape route and how to obtain relief materials in an orderly manner, so as to ensure that more people are rescued.
For some countries with poor organizational capacity, the whole city will be thrown into chaos after the warning of a global temperature drop.
In order to grab supplies, people rushed to enter the air defense zone, and even fought fiercely, and riots broke out in the streets.
Before the end of the world came and took people's lives, vicious attacks between people had already led to the death of a large number of people.
By this time, the temperature had dropped by 20 degrees Celsius, and the average temperature of the ocean had dropped by 4 degrees Celsius.
For people in the tropics, such temperatures can still hold up for a while.
For some cold and subarctic regions, the temperature is below zero, and a sudden drop of 20 degrees Celsius will cause a large number of people to freeze to death.
Glaciers will also gradually expand outward, and most of the high latitudes have been covered by glaciers, and the ends of the earth have become white.
At this time, the temperature has not stopped falling, and as the temperature drops by 30 degrees Celsius, the temperature at the equator also reaches below zero for the first time.
This also means that even people in the tropics have to go into winter.
At this time, people in these low-latitude areas can only freeze to death because they lack enough warm clothing.
When the temperature drops by 40 degrees Celsius, all the water on Earth freezes and the entire Earth becomes a white ball.
Large numbers of people in high and low latitudes are frozen to death due to their own reasons.
The Earth has also reached its coldest time, the Great Ice Age. At that time, the earth will completely become a scene in the wandering earth.
The earth's biosphere has suffered a huge destruction, and many organisms that were originally on the earth could not adapt to such a low temperature environment, and their metabolism, respiratory circulation and other physiological functions in the body would be affected, or even stop soon.
A large number of organisms die, and the number of organisms that survive is very small. There is only a small part of the entire Earth that still has life.
Such a planet has ushered in an apocalyptic era, and can only wait for the earth to restart and give birth to a new civilization.
However, there is no need to panic, because the change in temperature is a gradual process, and it is impossible to drop the global temperature by 40 degrees Celsius overnight.
Many netizens are curious, if there is really such a day, what should we do? In fact, what everyone is really worried about is that the frequent human activities have caused irreversible damage to the earth, which has directly led to the frequent occurrence of extreme weather in recent years, and many people will die from these extreme natural disasters every year.
The Sixth Assessment Report (AR6) of the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) states that global warming is occurring at a rate unprecedented in the last 50 years since the last 2,000 years.
According to the Blue Book on Climate Change in China (2024), the number of warm days per year in China has increased by an average of 6.7 days per decade, and the number of days with annual heavy rainfall (daily precipitation of ≥ 50 mm) has increased by 4.1% every 10 years.
The earth is not the earth of one man, but the precious wealth shared by all the countries of the earth. Therefore, the response to climate change should be jointly undertaken by all countries in the world, and all people in the world should participate in it.
Through the development and utilization of new energy, we can reduce the damage to the environment caused by energy exploitation and use, respect the natural ecology of the earth, and slow down the rhythm of the earth, so that the earth we live in can gradually recover its health, and the frequency of extreme weather can be controlled.
Resources:
[1] China.com, "China Release丨It is Imminent to Jointly Respond to Climate Change in Many Places Around the World Encounter Extreme Weather This Year", 2024-07-18