Which was a fancy analytic way of saying that the natural factors which vie and combine to define the “global temperature” (if we can agree on what that means as a single number, kind of like defining a person’s mind with a single number IQ) are vastly larger than what puny man can do. In fact paradoxical effects are possible; “Mother Nature” may “decide” to meet all this “greenhouse gas” with nods towards a new ice age. These silly slyentists are treating the system as though it were nicely contained in a laboratory chamber, and not roaring with chaos!
Lorenz’s study was of a simplified system, and still even that could not be predicted.
he eventually made an even more simple math model, a system of three equations (retaining the nonlinearity).
Graphing it gives the famous Lorenz butterfly.