I found that it was
really beneficial to give him more outlets to get
out some
of his physical
energy:
running outside, finding things that he could throw, and letting him hit a pillow.
On the question
of hurricanes, the theoretical arguments that more
energy and water vapor in the atmosphere should lead to stronger storms are
really sound (after all, storm intensity increases going from pole toward equator), but determining precisely how human influences (so including GHGs [greenhouse gases] and aerosols, and land cover change) should be changing hurricanes in a system where there are natural external (solar and volcanoes) and internal (e.g., ENSO, NAO [El Nino - Southern Oscillation, North Atlantic Oscillation]-RRB- influences is quite problematic — our climate models are just not good enough yet to carry
out the types
of sensitivity tests that have been done using limited area hurricane models
run for relatively short times.
But at some point, we
ran out of steam and never
really finished the ceiling or the floor in there, so we took advantage
of another burst
of DIY
energy a couple weeks ago, and went back to work on Project: Dining Room.