"For those of you who are interested in statistics, this is a five-sigma event. So it's five standard deviations beyond the mean. Which means that if nothing had changed, we'd expect to see a winter like this about once every 7.5 million years.
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She fears a further change in the balance could trigger a tipping point from where it's difficult to reverse the trajectory. "We might end up in a new state," she said. "That would be quite concerning to the sustainability of human conditions on Earth, I suspect.
at this point i feel like the analogy of monkeys accidentally starting a forest fire is accurate
the monkeys are technically capable of putting it out, it's just statistically unlikely and would require many coincidences and the monkeys have no idea how it happened in the first place so it would probably just happen again given enough time