Humans aren't just making Earth warmer, they are making the climate chaotic, a stark new study suggests.

Highlights

• Earth periodically experiences massive changes in climate patterns, going from one stable equilibrium to another.

• When the climate goes through a phase transition, this means that Earth is experiencing a sudden and rapid change in patterns.

• If human activity is driving a phase transition in Earth's climate, that means we are causing the planet to develop a new set of weather patterns

• The researchers explored different ways that the human logistic map could evolve, depending on a variety of factors like our population, introduction of carbon reduction strategies and better, more efficient technologies.

• But in the worst cases, the researchers found that Earth's climate leads to chaos. True, mathematical chaos. In a chaotic system, there is no equilibrium and no repeatable patterns.

• Most concerning, the researchers found that above a certain critical threshold temperature for Earth's atmosphere, a feedback cycle can kick in where a chaotic result would become unavoidable.

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