Ischemic necrosis sets in when freezing temperatures cause your blood vessels to contract severely, essentially mummifying the remaining warm-blooded creatures on Earth.
These sharp highs and freezing lows, combined with the increasingly carbon dioxide rich atmosphere, form the ‘triple whammy’ of extinction events that will make our plane incompatible with life.
Rather than taking this information as a sign that all is well at the moment, the team behind the study wanted to warn people about how close we are to triggering our own mass extinction event.
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