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In the book The Life and Death of Planet Earth, authors Peter D. Ward and Donald Brownlee state that some animal life may be able to survive in the oceans. Eventually, however, all multicellular life will die out. [81] The first sea animals to go extinct will be large fish, followed by small fish and then, finally, invertebrates. [78]
Life in 2050 is a 2011 futurology book by Ulrich Eberl. The book deals with the effects that climate change, peak oil and the 2000s energy crisis has on the year of the mid-21st century. [2] This book is intended primarily for students, young professionals, university professors and politicians. [2]
In contemporary history, the third millennium is the current millennium in the Anno Domini or Common Era, under the Gregorian calendar.It began on 1 January 2001 and will end on 31 December 3000 (), spanning the 21st to 30th centuries.
It takes Earth 365.242190 days — or 365 days five hours, 48 minutes and 56 seconds — to orbit the Sun, and the “extra time needs to be accounted for somehow,” the website says.
A report from the NOAA hinted at the possibility of an "extreme" sea-level rise scenario that would put some American towns and cities underwater.
Physics of the Future: How Science Will Shape Human Destiny and Our Daily Lives by the Year 2100 is a 2011 book by theoretical physicist Michio Kaku, author of Hyperspace and Physics of the Impossible. In it Kaku speculates about possible future technological development over the next 100 years.
By 2100, the Northern Sea Route will be passable all year, cutting shipping distances by 40% and travel time by 30%—but raising concerns over climate change. ... While this is bad news for life ...
By 2100, the report assumed life expectancy to be from 66 to 97 years, and by 2300 from 87 to 106 years, depending on the country. Based on that assumption, they expect that rising life expectancy will produce small but continuing population growth by the end of the projections, ranging from 0.03 to 0.07 percent annually.