Scientists have unveiled a real-world image from an upcoming sci-fi movie. Ave Maria Projectplot – darkening of the sun.
The film, which will be released in March 2026, revolves around a lone scientist who tries to discover the secret behind the sun’s brightness decreasing by one percent in one year and five percent in two decades.
Experts say that this scenario is only hypothetical, since if it happened in reality, humanity would be annihilated.
A planetary scientist at the California Institute of Technology, Professor David Stevenson, said such a change would remove humans from Earth, adding: “Extinguishing life on Earth could take a long time as there are many creatures living underground.”
Currently, the Earth absorbs much of the Sun’s energy and reflects only 30 percent back into space, thus keeping the planet warm.
Using scientific calculations, experts reveal that if the sun’s brightness decreases, the Earth will cool rapidly.
Just 0.22 percent less energy from the sun, as it went through a 70-year lull known as the Maunder Minimum, led to Earth’s Little Ice Age. Temperatures in northern Europe dropped by 2°C between 1645 and 1715.
Although humans face the increasing effects of global warming, global cooling would even prove catastrophic.
A recent report reveals that just a 1.8°C drop in global temperature would disrupt food chains by reducing production of corn, wheat, soybeans and rice by 11 percent, resulting in mass famine.
A total of 5.3 billion people could die in just two years if crop production fails due to lack of sunlight.
