Thread by @soychicka

Whoa. Totally missed @ericswalwell's reference to #ClimateChaos last night...

I think I've been using the phrase since the early 2000s, because it best characterizes the wholesale shift that will come from increased atmospheric energy ...

https://twitter.com/soychicka/status/946640080004960256

Eddies in the atmosphere lead to polar vortexes in the midwest but 60 degree temperatures in Alaska - which not only impacts weather, but interferes with native plants overwintering...

shifting precipitation patterns leading to droughts, spring flooding keeping corn from being knee-high by the fourth of July, but extending 80 degree temps through November...

Changing atmospheric composition impacting plants differentially, but regardless of any gains to productivity, erratic, regularly unseasonal weather plus increased range of tolerant opportunistic, invasive, alien species will more than offset any benefit from increased CO2.

And, like, dozens of other things that are more than just weather, atmospheric composition, temperature, precipitation... effectively, increased atmospheric energy can interrupt the very existence of "climate" as a consistent phenomenon.

So... YES. Organisms can adapt to change. But chaos is the enemy of order, which is essentially the central organizing principle of life - the ability to create and perpetuate order from entropy.

Chaos is the enemy of order - the enemy of life.
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