What Environmental Reporting Leaves Out

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54. There is a small, but very common, misconception contained in what you say here.

You are not grossly inaccurate or anything like that. This is a small (but important) point.

The generally accepted theory of warming and climate change is that when heat is added to the system it will become more chaotic, meaning that the attractors will move further from the center.

The extremes will move farther apart such that weather can become both hotter AND colder.

This is what the models predict, and this is exactly what the data is showing. When you freeze the animation in the NASA link it is clear that the spread is also widening as the data shifts to the right over time:






I don't really have any strong disagreement with your overall take on things. I just want to try and clarify what I understand to be some fairly simple but common misconceptions about the science. Some folks think that anecdotal evidence of AGW is the most convincing while I believe that the science is even more compelling if the basics are more fully understood.

The whole idea of being able to examine non-linear systems is fairly new - they didn't know about it back when I was in high school.

As for solutions to the crisis, because it has already become a crisis, harvesting heat energy from the atmosphere instead of from fossil fuels will be a good start. And we should begin now. Wind and solar are the future.