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#48 – Spencer Weart on the Discovery of Global Warming
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The Origins of Chaos Theory
Geologists had converged on something like four great ice ages over the last million years from their evidence of the rocks being pushed around and so on. But now there's a new understanding that, in fact, er the climat is very sensitive to very small perturbations. A butterfly can caused a tornadon kansas by flapping its wings. Tas o'Mara: There's actually two things going on here - one is the size of the human population; the other is the greenhouse effect. Foquet: I'd sugjust say back what i've heard there, this sounds like a fairly big, radical reinterpretation of how the climate works.
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