Power laws describe self-organized networks: expect many more very large events and zillions of small ones while you forget bell curves. Weather has properties of a self-organizing system. The coin spins...
JimB

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"Forget global warming: Welcome to the new Ice Age
"Lorne Gunter, National Post Published: Monday, February 25, 2008

"... And it's not just anecdotal evidence that is piling up against the climate-change dogma.

"According to Robert Toggweiler of the Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory at Princeton University and Joellen Russell, assistant professor of biogeochemical dynamics at the University of Arizona -- two prominent climate modellers -- the computer models that show polar ice-melt cooling the oceans, stopping the circulation of warm equatorial water to northern latitudes and triggering another Ice Age (a la the movie The Day After Tomorrow) are all wrong.

"We missed what was right in front of our eyes," says Prof. Russell. It's not ice melt but rather wind circulation that drives ocean currents northward from the tropics. Climate models until now have not properly accounted for the wind's effects on ocean circulation, so researchers have compensated by over-emphasizing the role of manmade warming on polar ice melt..."

More at: http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/...bb1d0d0&k=4336