Earth 2500: Shocking images reveal how the Amazon will be barren and India too hot to live in

In one song by English pop band Busted, 'not much has changed' by the year 3000, 'but they live underwater'. If carbon dioxide emissions continue to rise, the Amazon will be barren, the American Midwest tropical and India too hot to live in come the year 2500. This is the gloomy warning of a research team led from Canada's McGill University who modelled future climates under three greenhouse gas mitigation scenarios. They then illustrated their worst case scenarios -- alongside sketches of life in the year 1500 AD and the present -- to highlight how alien the future Earth could be. The findings, they said, highlight the importance of not stopping climate predictions at the 2100 benchmark, as is common, but also considering the ongoing impacts.