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Somewhere at the bottom of the ocean, life wont stop for a looooong time unless the sun explodes or the planet gets shattered by something. All life extinct will probably not happen for billions of years.
Bold to assume there will still be oceans in a millennium.
The thing about climate change is that we've set off positive feedback loops that we don't fully understand - you may have noticed a trend of climate projections of "It's gonna be pretty bad next year..." followed by "Okay, so the year happened... it was WAY worse than we expected...". Think of things like the methane trapped under the permafrost: permafrost melts, methane releases, greenhouse happens and shit warms up a bit, more ice melts / faster, more methane is released, more greenhouse happens, etc.
Humans could all get thanos-snapped out of existence RIGHT NOW. Full and instant stop to all of our industries, all pollution... the feedback loops we've set into motion are still at play, and the environment will continue to get worse.
How much worse? No idea. Maybe it'll warm up for another 10 years, plateau, then come back down to give the non-human life that didn't get snapped out a relative paradise? But maybe those positive feedback loops will just keep cranking along, and the extreme end of that would look something like the planet going completely molten.
The TLDR is we don't know, so assumptions for pretty much any end result are going to fall under 'educated speculation' at best.
Its not really speculation. The planet recovered from much worse scenarios. It was at one point just a rock of hot magma stuff. Humans will die very quickly if things get nasty but we are just very sensitive creatures. As soon as we are gone, things will continue to be weird for a couple thousand years or maybe much more, but eventually it will just stabilize again like with any other extreme period in the planets history.
The conditions will just be different in ways that are incompatible with us, but short life cycle fast evolving creatures will adapt no matter what. From a nature perspective this is just a bit of a strategy shift, because as long as there is some sort of atmosphere (which there will be without a doubt) things will just go on. Just without us.
Dude, you open with that and then hit me with two paragraphs of pure speculation.
Worse scenarios than what?
Was there life then? Will life persist if Earth returns to that state? How?
How?
...because?
...because?
Which things? Life? How?
I appreciate your optimism, but unless you're a god, that isn't going to just will this shit into happening.