Reply #7: the "Butterfly Effect" ?..........

[ElsewheresDaughter]

""Any worldly event that involves the movement of mass affects the Earth's rotation, from seasonal weather down to driving a car," Chao said."



http://www.fortunecity.com/emachines/e11/86/beffect.html

The "Butterfly Effect" is the propensity of a system to be sensitive to initial conditions.Such systems over time become unpredictable,this idea gave rise to the notion of a butterfly flapping it's wings in one area of the world,causing a tornado or some such weather event to occur in another remote area of the world.



Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil set off a Tornado in Texas?


The Butterfly Effect. The "Butterfly Effect", or more technically the "sensitive dependence on initial conditions", is the essence of chaos. ...
www.cmp.caltech.edu/~mcc/chaos_new/Lorenz.html