Regime Shift?

There’s no reason that the climate needs to change gradually. Recently scientists have become interested in regime shifts, which are abrupt, substantial and lasting changes in the state of a complex system.

Rasha Kamel of the Azimuth Project pointed us to a report in Science Daily which says:

Planet Earth experienced a global climate shift in the late 1980s on an unprecedented scale, fueled by anthropogenic warming and a volcanic eruption, according to new research. Scientists say that a majo...