The mathematical model for this is probably a space of local attractors with complex poincare cycles moving the climate around them, and with events or just
plain time evolution causing comparatively sudden «jumps» between attractors.
Not exact matches
The main problem I've seen with people accepting
evolution (aside from
plain old religious grounds) is a lack of concept of the vast amounts of
time over which these things happened.
Those curves, as the legend makes
plain, show the
evolution of relative humidity over
time at different altitudes in the atmosphere.