Physicists Warn Earth Could Feasibly Descend Into Chaos
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 model superconductivity, a team of
physicists led by Alex Bernadini of the University of Porto in
Portugal showed in a preprint paper this year 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, the research suggests. They detailed
their work in a paper made available in April 2022 on the preprint
server arXiv, which remains to be peer-reviewed.
"The implications of climate change are well known (droughts, heat
waves, extreme phenomena, etc.)," physicist Orfeu Bertolami told Live
Science last year.
"If the Earth System gets into the region of chaotic behavior, we will
lose all hope of somehow fixing the problem."
https://www.sciencealert.com/physicists-warn-earth-could-feasibly-descend-into-chaos
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