Yesterday’s microscopes were blinded by El Niño.
Is there an easy workaround?
YES:
“Pólya notes that ‘human superiority consists in going around an obstacle that cannot be overcome directly’”
“Pólya advises that this requires that the student have the patience to wait until the bright idea appears (subconsciously).”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It
3 of Pólya’s problem solving suggestions are KEY at this stage in the evolution of Climatology:
1. “Use symmetry.”
2. “Solve a simpler problem.”
3. “Eliminate possibilities.”
The solar-terrestrial double-helix of equator-pole gradients:
http://i43.tinypic.com/o52jbd.png
The focus CAN be sharpened. I’m refining tools.
At the global scale, nuances of the simple symmetry encoded in Earth Orientation Parameters constrain (via the Law of Conservation of Angular Momentum) the set of permissible climate model states.
Background primers:
1. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/03/30/open-thread-weekend-9/#comment-940636
2. http://wattsupwiththat.com/2011/04/10/solar-terrestrial-lunisolar-components-of-rate-of-change-of-length-of-day/ (Serious parties eying today’s cutting edge: Devote lucid attention to the nuances of cross-scale aggregation.)
Conjecture: The nature of solar-terrestrial relations can be generalized across a wide range of geophysical variables.