“The sun, like all main sequence stars, is getting brighter with time and that affects the Earth’s climate,” says Dr. James F. Kasting, professor of meteorology and geosciences at Penn State University. “Eventually temperatures will become high enough so that the oceans evaporate.”<\/p>\n
“Astronomers always knew that the oceans would evaporate, but they typically thought it would occur only when the sun left the main sequence,” Kasting said. “That will be in 5 billion years.”<\/p>\n
“However, the oceans may evaporate much earlier. My calculations are somewhat pessimistic and present a worst case scenario that does not include the effects of clouds, but they say a billion years.”<\/p>\n
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