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Climate is also a more macro level view of a system. Think Entropy. Imagine Oxygen molecules in a box. The individual movements are complex and unpredictable b
by Geminidog 6y ago
Climate is also a more macro level view of a system. Think Entropy.
Imagine Oxygen molecules in a box. The individual movements are complex and unpredictable but at a very high level macro view we can see all of these movements in aggregate as temperature.
Temperature is not only much more stable then the chaotic movements of individual atoms but it is predictable and controllable. I can heat a kettle of water to a very specific temperature and I can accurately predict the rate in which it will cool down when I stop heating it. I cannot however control or predict the actions of specific molecules within the kettle.
The lower level you go the more chaotic things become. The higher you go the more deterministic things appear to be.