Only Opportunity

Happened upon this

The constraints imposed by the planetary ecosystem require continuous adjustment and permanent adaptation. Predictive skills are of secondary importance.
Hendrik Tennekes

 and thought of this

There is no security on this earth; there is only opportunity.
General Douglas MacArthur

Tennekes concludes with

From my background in turbulence I look forward with grim anticipation to the day that climate models will run with a horizontal resolution of less than a kilometer. The horrible predictability problems of turbulent flows then will descend on climate science with a vengeance.

I have his book; it is rather good.

Goodbye Blue Sky

Look mummy, there's an airplane up in the sky

over Rotary Park in Beavercreek.

Click this one to watch the prop go 'round: