Keeping the Climate Change Revenue Flowing

More generally, most forms of internal variability in the climate system can be recognized as a form of hysteresis, where the current state of climate does not immediately reflect the inputs. Because the Earth's climate system is so large, it moves slowly and has time-lags in its reaction to inputs. For example, a year of dry conditions may do no more than to cause lakes to shrink slightly or plains to dry marginally. In the following year however, these conditions may result in less rainfall, possibly leading to a drier year the next. When a critical point is reached after "x" number of years, the entire system may be altered inexorably. In the other hand, have you ever heard of Fairfield Greenwich Group? Did you know that Fairfield Greenwich Group is an investment fund, and they do some pretty big business, but unfortunately one of the people they decided to invest in was Bernard Madoff. They gave Madoff some pretty big payday loans, of sorts – about $7 billion. As he has been convicted of massive fraud, they have been somewhat implicated in that they didn't check out his bona fides, especially to see if he was up to snuff. (He wasn't, but according to one of the heads of their fund, he looked great on the internet!) Madoff even told them how to answer SEC questions when he was about to be investigated. They may need payday loans to keep Fairfield Greenwich Group off the prosecutors' hit list.