{"id":14860,"date":"2025-05-16T08:50:02","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T12:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/?p=14860"},"modified":"2025-05-16T08:50:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T12:50:02","slug":"nasa-says-goodbye-to-this-country","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/nasa-says-goodbye-to-this-country\/14860\/","title":{"rendered":"NASA says goodbye to this country \u2015 It will turn on a &#8216;blazing inferno&#8217; in this century"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Global warming may no longer come as a surprise to anyone, especially NASA. After all, it is a topic that is always discussed in newspapers, at schools, colleges, and even in conversations with friends and family. But even so, no one is prepared for its consequences. Or are you going to tell me that a <strong>country becoming uninhabitable<\/strong> is something we are already expecting? That is what awaits us.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The race against time: Why is NASA so worried about this country?<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Five years ago, in 2020, the journal Science Advances published a study that identified regions of the planet that are on track to become uninhabitable by 2070 due to extreme heat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The study analyzed extreme heat events between 1979 and 2017, in which <\/span>high air humidity and temperatures above 35\u00baC <b>prevent sweat from cooling the body<\/b>,<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> which already represents a risk of death for the population. In addition to the worrying situation, what also draws scientists&#8217; attention is that these extreme events have tripled during the 40 years of study.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even though this first edition of the study did not identify or mention<\/span> Brazil<span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as one of the regions analyzed, in March 2022, a <\/span>NASA blog cited the study in the journal, and in that publication, the country was mentioned as one of the <strong>regions most affected by the deadly heat<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Climatologist Carlos Nobre comments on the subject and makes some important statements to pay attention to:<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAnd it\u2019s not just Brazil, okay? It\u2019s a <\/span><\/i><i>huge part of the tropical regions and even mid-latitudes <\/i><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">that could become uninhabitable if the temperature reaches this level of 4\u00baC or more\u201d<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The 4\u00b0C increase mentioned by Nobre refers to a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/global-warming-four-seasons\/568\/\">temperature above the average of pre-industrial levels<\/a>. <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And, if this increase was previously projected to occur in 100\/200 years, the situation becomes even more alarming after a new projection from The Nature Conservancy&#8217;s (TNC) Natural Climate Solutions, which states that 4\u00b0C could now be reached in 30 or 50 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Amazon is also heating up \u2013 and could collapse<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If we talk about Brazil, we can&#8217;t help but talk about the Amazon, and unfortunately, this time it&#8217;s to report some not-so-good news. A NASA study projected that the world could reach a <\/span><b>2\u00b0C increase in average temperature between 2041 and 2044<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and as a consequence, not only will the current climate stability be affected, but the <\/span>Amazon region will be the most affected.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Some of the consequences that Amazon will face if this increase becomes a reality are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Less rainfall, more droughts, strong winds, and<\/span> increased risk of fires;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Loss of moisture, especially in the Arc of Deforestation;<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Threats to species that do not thrive in periods of drought and wind.<\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Risk of the forest turning into degraded Savannah, which would release 250 billion tons of CO\u2082, representing almost 75% of the global target to limit warming to 1.5\u00b0C.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It won\u2019t just be forests affected by extreme heat: cities will suffer too<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When we talk about extreme heat, our thoughts almost always go to forests, rivers, seas, and everything that involves nature, but we forget that<\/span><b> urban spaces will be just as affected.<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Cities that are heavily surrounded by buildings and asphalt, such as S\u00e3o Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, and Salvador, are already experiencing this extreme heat. This scenario of high urbanization and lack of vegetation increases the <\/span><b>&#8220;heat island&#8221; effec<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">t, increasing the temperature by up to 5\u00b0C in green areas.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">NASA&#8217;s warnings show that not only Brazil, but several regions of the planet, could face uninhabitable areas by 2070, we could see entire ecosystems, such as the Amazon, collapsing. Not stopping there, <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecoticias.com\/en\/america-earthquake-risk-new-hotspots\/14021\/\">experts warn that America is at risk of a natural catastrophe.<\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> The world is giving signs on several fronts, we just need to decide how to deal with them.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global warming may no longer come as a surprise to anyone, especially NASA. 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