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Weather and Climatology: Mandelbrot's View

Update: also see posts 382, 460, 462, 460. We often hear a distinction made between “climate” and “weather”. It may surprise people that the famous mathematician, Benoit Mandelbrot, thought about this problem with completely opposite conclusions to realclimate. Mandelbrot is a prolific author who invented and popularized the concept of fractals . His popular book, […]