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to: Rich Gauszka
from: Randy H
date: 2004-01-28 23:49:40
subject: Re: Global Warming = Ice Age for Britain?

From: "Randy H" 

I've heard this described as Bell's Theorm, with a similar hook: a polar
bear in Anartica jumping on an ice flow causes a train wreck in France.

"Rich Gauszka"  wrote in message
news:40187945{at}w3.nls.net...
> You forgot the Butterfly Effect
>
> http://www.cmp.caltech.edu/~mcc/chaos_new/Lorenz.html
> The "Butterfly Effect" is often ascribed to Lorenz. In a paper in 1963
given
> to the New York Academy of Sciences he remarks:
>
>   One meteorologist remarked that if the theory were correct, one flap of
a
> seagull's wings would be enough to alter the course of the weather
forever.
> By the time of his talk at the December 1972 meeting of the American
> Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington, D.C. the sea
gull
> had evolved into the more poetic butterfly - the title of his talk was* :
>   Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly's Wings in Brazil set off a
> Tornado in Texas?
> "Geo."  wrote in message
news:40187792$1{at}w3.nls.net...
> > "Phil Payne"  wrote in message
> > news:401603BD.C8E549F7{at}isham-research.com...
> >
> > > And the reason the surface waters of the North Atlantic are so warm is
> ..?
> >
> > Microwaves? High usage of the trans-atlantic cable? Sewage from NYC?
> >
> > Geo.
> >
> >
>
>

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