[HN Gopher] Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route t...
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Trying to make sense of why Otis exploded en route to Acapulco this
week
Author : sohkamyung
Score : 17 points
Date : 2023-10-26 21:58 UTC (1 hours ago)
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| Applejinx wrote:
| For a weather forecaster this is a really strange take.
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| Anybody who understands what the big words 'climate change' mean,
| could have predicted this. HAVE predicted this. I personally have
| predicted this and I'm not even a weather forecaster, I just know
| what chaos theory is.
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| Adding energy to the system produces a wider range of possible
| outcomes. This is absolutely one of the possible outcomes.
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| A few degrees less warming and it might not have been possible.
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| Chaos is STRANGE. It's sensitive to initial conditions. One of
| those conditions is the total energy in the system. This is what
| happens when you add a few degrees to the whole planet. It'll act
| normal, sort of, maybe for quite a while... then bam.
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| Because this is what you get when you add energy to a chaotic
| system the size of a planet, and it will happen again. We just
| got a picture of the new range of possible event... or of
| something WITHIN the new range of possible event, which by no
| means is guaranteed to be the most dramatic climate outcome
| currently possible.
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| This was probably on the high end of possible events but might
| not even be the most extreme thing that can now happen with this
| level of climate energy.
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| Climate energy is still increasing.
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