SciShow: How a Butterfly’s Wingbeat CAN Change the Weather

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Content of the Lesson: You may have heard of the butterfly effect, where butterflies flapping their wings somehow cause tornadoes. Although it seems pretty unlikely, butterflies can affect the weather, just not in the way you might think. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, الخليفي سلطان, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.1977 https://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/abs/10.1175/1520-0469%281963%29020%3C0130%3ADNF%3E2.0.CO%3B2 https://web.archive.org/web/20130612164541/http://eaps4.mit.edu/research/Lorenz/Butterfly_1972.pdf http://theconversation.com/explainer-what-is-chaos-theory-10620 http://mpe.dimacs.rutgers.edu/2013/03/17/chaos-in-an-atmosphere-hanging-on-a-wall/ https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?feature=839 https://aapt.scitation.org/doi/10.1119/1.17335 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0164070405000881?via%3Dihub https://link.springer.com/article/10.1140/epjb/e2012-20799-5 http://archive.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/06/08/the_meaning_of_the_butterfly/?page=full ------- Images: https://www.videoblocks.com/video/butterfly-on-flower-q7ml8zm https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/4563 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30644 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:IBM_7090_console_used_by_a_meteorologist,_1965.jpg https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/3913 https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/10953 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/large-swarm-of-butterflies-flying-upward-loop-d43exyt https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=File%3ADouble_pendulum_simultaneous_realisations.ogv https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/30701


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