Robert,
You seem to have missed this point made by Tim Palmer:
"The critical question that climatologists are trying to answer is
whether the climate attractor will suffer a minor perturbation (for
example, small shift of the whole attractor along one of the axes of
phase space), or whether there will be a substantial change in the
whole shape and position of the attractor, leading to some possibly
devastating weather states not experienced in today's climate. Chaos
theory certainly does not forbid the possibility of some substantial
change to the atmosphere's climate attractor as a result of modest
increases in the amount of carbon dioxide."
In other words, will there be an abrupt climate change?
Cheers, Alastair.
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