[ale] unusual global warming experiment

[JK]

On 2/10/2010 4:30 PM, William Fragakis wrote:

> and before anyone points out the snow in the NE

This has always struck me as a strange piece of evidence to deploy
against the concept of global warming.  GW involves adding energy to
(or trapping more energy within) a *chaotic system*.  The consequences
of that are damned hard to anticipate, and certainly needn't be
obvious or intuitive.  If anything, I'd expect the usual fluctuations
to get more dramatic -- hotter summers, sure, but also colder winters;
increasing amplitude of variation. (But even that is facile and,
admittedly, almost totally uninformed.) Point is, "Look, more snow!"
is by no means a slam-dunk refutation of GW, regardless of whether
someone somewhere else can point and say "Look, less snow!"

-- JK


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