The Butterfly Effect and Political Impact

Does the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Brazil set off a tornado in Texas?

This was the question posed by meteorologist, Edward Lorenz, in a 1972 talk he gave to the 139^th meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Lorenz began his research into weather patterns in the early 1960s and was one of the ‘inventors’ of Chaos Theory an…