Weather and climate are certainly different thing but if one is chaotic, probably both are. In any case, my point is really that we are not good at predicting complex things in any discipline.
Anyway, if I could only ate what is safe to eat according to the experts, I would die of hunger. If I listened to expert climate scientists, I could look forward to either fry or freeze, depending to who you listen to. Etc. I have stopped listening to doomsday-sayers and will now go out and buy Crichtons latest book "State of Fear".
There has been many ice ages in the earths history and we are somewhere between two. The serious (i.e. non-political - I hate so-called scientists who can predict global warming but not predict the weather tomorrow) researchers believe that the temperature may increase some four degrees before the start of the next ice age.
Some researchers notes that the earth were four degrees warmer around 1000 BC (my memory may be wrong with the year) and that the climate also were significantly warmer 800-1200 AD which let to prosperity up until the colder middle age. So let us look forward to a bit of warming!
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Weather and climate are certainly different thing but if one is chaotic, probably both are. In any case, my point is really that we are not good at predicting complex things in any discipline.
Anyway, if I could only ate what is safe to eat according to the experts, I would die of hunger. If I listened to expert climate scientists, I could look forward to either fry or freeze, depending to who you listen to. Etc. I have stopped listening to doomsday-sayers and will now go out and buy Crichtons latest book "State of Fear".
Jorgen
There has been many ice ages in the earths history and we are somewhere between two. The serious (i.e. non-political - I hate so-called scientists who can predict global warming but not predict the weather tomorrow) researchers believe that the temperature may increase some four degrees before the start of the next ice age.
Some researchers notes that the earth were four degrees warmer around 1000 BC (my memory may be wrong with the year) and that the climate also were significantly warmer 800-1200 AD which let to prosperity up until the colder middle age. So let us look forward to a bit of warming!
Jorgen