`Hermine Unique among Storms’

Posted on 4 September 2016 by ecoquant

Post-tropical storm Hermine is the story of the emergence of weather chimeras.

Simple. The forecasting precedents have changed. We cannot look to the past to anticipate the future any longer. We’re playing by different rules. And we don’t know what their implications are, because the experiment has never been run before. We’re running it. And we have no idea what will happen.

But we’re continuing it nonetheless. This hasn’t been anticipated. This hasn’t be war-gamed.

Welcome to the Hyper Anthropocene.

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See https://wordpress.com/view/667-per-cm.net/ Retired data scientist and statistician. Now working projects in quantitative ecology and, specifically, phenology of Bryophyta and technical methods for their study.

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