Article Index: Earth

altEarth Sciences: Geology, Climatology, Vulcanism, Meteorology, Oceanography, Seismology etc.



A Complex Systems Metatheory for Abrupt Climate Change

Earth - Climatology
Robert
 
altThere is a Neils Bohr aphorism - 'prediction is very difficult, especially if it's about the future'.  Climate is a 'cascade of powerful mechanisms' that is characterised by abrupt, rapid, frequent and sometimes extreme change:    classic behaviour of a dynamic and complex system in chaos theory.  The limits of predictability of climate may be much broader than we think.     

Hutton's Unconformity

Earth - Geology
Spinney

altA brief outline of geological theories before Hutton, and what led him to his Uniformitarian ideas.

 

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