Post #4296270
2026-04-26 19:15 UTC
"Imagine dropping a rubber duck into a raging river. You can have a sense of where it might go, but it’s increasingly impossible to predict precisely where the duck will be the farther downriver it travels."
"The same is true of Earth’s atmosphere."
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@schiriki@troet.cafe 2026-04-26 19:15
"But the trajectory of a river is not defined by the turbulence of the water in it. The river’s bends are driven by larger-scale, longer-term phenomena" "A meteorologist is concerned with predicting where the duck will go; a climatologist is concerned with predicting where the river will go." 3/3