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by pfdietz 1716 days ago
The Earth will lose its oxygen first, then enter a moist greenhouse. This is all long before the sun becomes a red giant.

https://phys.org/news/2021-03-simulations-earth-oxygen-rich-...

(the summary there is inaccurate; CO2 will be increasingly absorbed by weathering of rocks as the Earth heats, until photosynthesis fails and oxygen levels collapse.)

1 comments

Nice, thanks for the link.