The Wondrous Dance of Climate Change
Apparently climate is a natural process, and it changes, according to a groundbreaking UW-Milwaukee study that notes that it changed in 2001, when it stopped its 30-year warming trend. The article states rather optimistically that the new study “could turn the climate change world upside down.” I wouldn’t hold my breath. But I like this part:
Scientists at the university used a math application known as synchronized chaos and applied it to climate data taken over the past 100 years.
“Imagine that you have four synchronized swimmers and they are not holding hands and they do their program and everything is fine; now, if they begin to hold hands and hold hands tightly, most likely a slight error will destroy the synchronization. Well, we applied the same analogy to climate,” researcher Dr. Anastasios Tsonis said.
Scientists said that the air and ocean systems of the earth are now showing signs of synchronizing with each other.
Eventually, the systems begin to couple and the synchronous state is destroyed, leading to a climate shift.
Sounds a little naughty, the coupling part. I’ve got this image of Al Gore in flame-patterned Cirque de Soleil tights swinging Tarzan-style on a great ribbon above the swimmers, yodelling. I guess because they’re the ocean and the air, they would be really big and he would be really small, but that’s not the way I see it in my vision. He’s the same size. Made big by public acclaim, especially that Nobel Peace Prize, which is dangling around his neck in medallion form. A really big medallion, kind of like Flava Flav’s clock. And, yeah, he’s probably blowing fire, too. You know.
Down in the pool, the synchronized swimmers can’t even see Al, what with the coupling and all, so for all his efforts they continue their aquatic ballet, slowly goofing it of their own accord, and thus changing the climate much as they have been doing for eons before he swung in from the wings, and will continue to do when he’s swung back in and weeds are growing in his eco-mansion’s raingutters. Changing the climate even, from Al’s perspective, at the most inopportune moments.
Topics: warmalism
Posted by Jules Crittenden at 11:03 pm on Monday, March 16, 2009
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March 17th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Changing the climate even, from Al’s perspective, at the most inopportune moments.
Yeah, if only he had the capacity to be embarrassed by that.