HUMANS19 June 2023

https://www.sciencealert.com/earth-could-feasibly-descend-into-chaos-physicists-warn

ByMICHELLE STARR

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The impact of human activity on the Earth system could result in unpredictable chaos from which there is no return, physicists have calculated.

Using a theory conceived to modelsuperconductivity, a team of physicists led by Alex Bernadini of the University of Porto in Portugal showed that, after a certain point, we will not be able to restore equilibrium to Earth’s climate.

A finite amount of human activity could result in a Hothouse Earth from which there is no return. They detailed their work in apaper made available in April 2022on the preprint server arXiv that remains to be peer-reviewed.

“The implications ofclimate changeare well known (droughts, heat waves, extreme phenomena, etc.),” physicist Orfeu Bertolamitold Live Sciencelast year.

“If the Earth System gets into the region of chaotic behavior, we will lose…