Hurriyet Daily News: If you spend a lot of time talking to scientists about climate change, theres one word youll hear time and time again, and yet its hardly ever mentioned in the public discussion of climate change. The word is non-linear. Most people think of global warming as an incremental thing. It may be inexorable, but its also predictable. Alas, most people are wrong. The climate is a very complex system, and complex systems can change in non-linear ways. In other words, you cannot count on the average...