Destruction of Hurricane Sandy
In these posting I frequently talk about the beauty of nature, like reflected in a garden. As we have been reminded the last two days with the major storm out east there is another, ugly and destructive, side of nature. Nature, like reflected in this major storm, can destroy cities, houses and kill persons.
The number of natural disasters, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes, tsunamis’ and other natural disasters are increasing in frequency and strength. Like hurricane Katrina in New Orleans we are starting to understand how man-made decisions are affecting nature and these disasters.
“In chaos theory, the butterfly effect is the sensitive dependence on initial conditions, where a small change at one place in a deterministic nonlinear system can result in large differences to a later state. The name of the effect, coined by Edward Lorenz, is derived from the theoretical example of a hurricane’s formation being contingent on whether or not a distant butterfly had flapped its wings several weeks before.” (Butterfly effect in wiki encyclopedia). With ‘climate change’ nature seems to more frequently show it’s ugly side, as to say “stop messing with me or I will turn on you more and more.”
With all the TV coverage on the East Coast storm and hurricane Sandy there seems to be little coverage of this fact of nature. I did hear the Governor of New York say something like it seems like we are having a 100 weather event ever other year.
The lesson to be learned here is “Do not mess with Nature or Nature will mess with you.” Can we hear the message?
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