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I think you are mixing weather and climate. Climate is long term average of weather (directly from definition of word "climate"). Weather is very hard to predic
by Faint 6y ago
I think you are mixing weather and climate. Climate is long term average of weather (directly from definition of word "climate"). Weather is very hard to predict 2 weeks ahead. Climate is stuff like "average rainfall in march in past 50 years". Some processes affecting climate may also be chaotic, but they are slow (by definition, otherwise they would be part of weather), and so I don't think 500 years is beyond speculation at all. Glacial periods have lately been around 100000 years, so 500 years to future we are not going to be much more or less glacial than we are now.
- loopz 6y agoRapid rises of temperature have coincident with mass extinctions before. Climate for past 10000 years have been remarkably stable, but is dependent on stable ecological processes (see Attenborough latest documentary on Netflix). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record