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I may be looking a little too much into this headline, but I really think it speaks to the way humans look at the earth as some static, immutable system. How c
by rcarrigan87 12y ago
I may be looking a little too much into this headline, but I really think it speaks to the way humans look at the earth as some static, immutable system.
How could someone even go about calculating these odds on something so dynamic. Boston was literally under ice 20K years ago and will probably be completely under water in another 20K years.
- burkaman 12y agoThe article covers it pretty well. This is just a simulation done for fun based on current climate conditions. Right after that they acknowledge that "Of course the climate isn't static" and offer a possible explanation for the huge increase in snow. But I think the point of the article is that even taking into account recent climate changes, this is still a super unlikely string of storms, and there's a lot of chance and coincidence involved.