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Probabilistic.mp3
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ABOUT THE SONG AND THE SCIENCE
Earth’s climate is a nonlinear, chaotic system — meaning its long-term trajectory cannot be captured by a single deterministic forecast. Instead, scientists use probabilistic models: large ensembles of simulations that explore thousands of possible futures by varying physical parameters, emissions pathways, socio-economic assumptions, and internal chaotic variability. These ensembles reveal not just what might happen, but how likely each outcome is — and how close the Earth system is to crossing irreversible thresholds.
We examine how human activities — such as deforestation, fossil fuel combustion, mass consumption, industrial agriculture, and land development — interact with ecological processes like thermal energy redistribution, carbon cycling, hydrological flow, biodiversity loss, and the spread of disease vectors. These interactions do not follow linear cause-and-effect patterns. Instead, they form complex, self-reinforcing feedback loops that can trigger rapid, system-wide transformations — often abruptly and without warning. Grasping these dynamics is crucial for accurately assessing global risks and developing effective strategies for long-term survival.
Probabilistic modeling quantifies risk, not certainty. Our ensemble results indicate the following temperature ranges by 2100:
By emissions trajectory
By physical behavior of the climate system
Most likely outcome under current global policy: ~3-7°C this century.
What these numbers mean:
Preventing these outcomes requires an immediate, large-scale fossil fuel phase-out, rapid global carbon drawdown, and aggressive adaptation to unavoidable impacts.
Explore the fundamentals of chaos theory in Edge of Chaos — where order meets unpredictability.
Understand the fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics and Chaos Theory in Climate Science.
* Our probabilistic, ensemble-based climate model — which incorporates complex socio-economic and ecological feedback loops within a dynamic, nonlinear system — projects that global temperatures are becoming unsustainable this century. This far exceeds earlier estimates of a 4°C rise over the next thousand years, highlighting a dramatic acceleration in global warming. We are now entering a phase of compound, cascading collapse, where climate, ecological, and societal systems destabilize through interlinked, self-reinforcing feedback loops.
What Can I Do?
→ “Solutions to the Fossil Fuel Economy and the Myths Accelerating Climate and Economic Collapse.“
From the album “Nonlinear“
By Probabilistic.mp3
[Intro]
[Verse 1]
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
[Verse 2]
[Bridge]
[Chorus]
[Bridge]
[Outro]
ABOUT THE SONG AND THE SCIENCE
Earth’s climate is a nonlinear, chaotic system — meaning its long-term trajectory cannot be captured by a single deterministic forecast. Instead, scientists use probabilistic models: large ensembles of simulations that explore thousands of possible futures by varying physical parameters, emissions pathways, socio-economic assumptions, and internal chaotic variability. These ensembles reveal not just what might happen, but how likely each outcome is — and how close the Earth system is to crossing irreversible thresholds.
We examine how human activities — such as deforestation, fossil fuel combustion, mass consumption, industrial agriculture, and land development — interact with ecological processes like thermal energy redistribution, carbon cycling, hydrological flow, biodiversity loss, and the spread of disease vectors. These interactions do not follow linear cause-and-effect patterns. Instead, they form complex, self-reinforcing feedback loops that can trigger rapid, system-wide transformations — often abruptly and without warning. Grasping these dynamics is crucial for accurately assessing global risks and developing effective strategies for long-term survival.
Probabilistic modeling quantifies risk, not certainty. Our ensemble results indicate the following temperature ranges by 2100:
By emissions trajectory
By physical behavior of the climate system
Most likely outcome under current global policy: ~3-7°C this century.
What these numbers mean:
Preventing these outcomes requires an immediate, large-scale fossil fuel phase-out, rapid global carbon drawdown, and aggressive adaptation to unavoidable impacts.
Explore the fundamentals of chaos theory in Edge of Chaos — where order meets unpredictability.
Understand the fundamentals of Statistical Mechanics and Chaos Theory in Climate Science.
* Our probabilistic, ensemble-based climate model — which incorporates complex socio-economic and ecological feedback loops within a dynamic, nonlinear system — projects that global temperatures are becoming unsustainable this century. This far exceeds earlier estimates of a 4°C rise over the next thousand years, highlighting a dramatic acceleration in global warming. We are now entering a phase of compound, cascading collapse, where climate, ecological, and societal systems destabilize through interlinked, self-reinforcing feedback loops.
What Can I Do?
→ “Solutions to the Fossil Fuel Economy and the Myths Accelerating Climate and Economic Collapse.“
From the album “Nonlinear“