Is there anyone besides me that thinks the earth is going through a rebellious kid phase. These swings in weather are crazy, 70 in Chicago in January? I remember Chicago going into the freezing temperatures in December and just climbing out in March. This is bizarre, although I do get the point of our carbon being a factor in this. In Systems Thinking they talk about tipping points, sometimes I wonder if we've hit a tipping point here. The System Theorists believe that all things are connected in a series of progressively bigger systems. Just think of it as a bunch of interacting parts, and that if the parts get out of balance then a reaction bigger than the sum of the parts can occur. It's a weird counter physics concept that seemingly violates the sum of energy and energy only being transformed not destroyed.
The mind power behind it makes it pretty convincing Meade, Bertanlaffy, Von Neuman, Teller, and so on. Most of the brilliant European Jews chased out of Europe by Hitler's Nazi's. Some of them were actually filled in the details on Einstein's axioms and theorems to help build the nuclear bomb in that beautiful Manhattan bungalow. Anyway in Systems Theory they have these tipping points which can be good or bad.
So if it's bad it can be really bad, or if it's good it could be really good. We really do not know where we are at with the earth. We've all seen the dire predictions about the ice sheets melting and land based ice displacing the sea flooding, well, well my home at least and more. I am not sure that will happen, not because I don't think that the ice sheets won't melt, I believe they will. But because I think that rather than flooding the added pressure on the earth's crust due to the weight of the water will result in extreme underwater volcanic activity. Which could split apart causing who know's what?
Just saying, the weather is weird, and we do not know what's going to come of it. Hopefully it will balance out and our earth will become a fine mature adult. And provide abundance to all it's happy citizens. How's that for an optimistic view?