"Things are changing so fast I don't think scientists are able to keep up."
Ever look at chaos theory? It saw much of its early development to help with weather models. Usually a chaotic system will oscillate around what is called a "strange attractor". It may go higher, it may go lower, but it always returns to this point. You can try to perturb the system, not much happens, it tends to be stable. Try hard enough and the oscillations start getting wider, you get extremes of highs and lows. That gets worse until a new strange attractor develops, and the system then quickly settles into its new range.
Interesting about the chaos theory.......one of the guys in my cohort did a presentation on the chaos theory last week. His endorsement is physics.
Now think about the weather over the past couple of decades...
Frankly, I don't like to think of it. Ten years ago, I was reading USA Today.......where they normally have their weather page, they had put in a weather page from the future......2030. The average summertime highs for that day in the future read like this: LA,132º; Houston, 116º; Phoenix, 143º; Las Vegas, 139º; Seattle,106º etc. A chill ran down my back. Now its ten years later and the prospects of such temps are looking much more likely. What really worries me is that once a critical mass is reached, the changes can start to snowball and move much faster. |
