Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-emx!chaos.utexas.edu!holloway From: holloway@chaos.utexas.edu (Bill Holloway) Newsgroups: sci.space.shuttle Subject: Re: Ozone and the shuttle Message-ID: <47527@ut-emx.uucp> Date: 19 Apr 91 21:02:18 GMT References: <4607@orbit.cts.com> Sender: news@ut-emx.uucp Reply-To: holloway@chaos.ut.UUCP (Bill Holloway) Organization: University of Texas at Austin, Center for Nonlinear Dynamics Lines: 12 Another important thing to realize about earth's climate system is that it is a dynamical system subject to delicate instabilities and subsequent alterations in its steady-state condition. That is, we don't necessarily need to fill the atmosphere with harmful chemicals in order to alter the climate. All we REALLY need to do is upset the delicate balance that keeps the climate in its current "temperate" state. If we knock the climate into an instability, who knows what steady-state will result? Some stability analyses predict that the current insolation value supports both an ice-age type steady-state solution as well as a greenhouse type steady-state. Thus any damage we do is dangerous.