In older times, the logic supplied by early geologists like Nicholas Steno, Louis Agassiz, and Charles Lyell provided a framework in which to explain known evidence of similarities and connections between different areas of our planet, of patterns of distribution in geological strata, of the presence of seashells on the mountain tops, or of stones resembling shark's teeth on the island of Malta.
BOSTON From the arc of a baseball to the orbits of the planets, mathematical patterns are everywhere.
The report, to be published on Friday, will be one of the most comprehensive on climate change to date, and will paint a grim picture of future changes to the planet's weather patterns.
And it left them further than ever from achieving their stated goal of keeping average global temperatures from rising 2 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels — a commonly accepted threshold beyond which the planet's climate patterns could be seriously destabilized.
On a planet whose cloud patterns have lifetimes often counted in days, the Great Red Spot has been continuously observed since 1878 and may even be the same storm that was observed from 1665 to 1713.
Changes in the dwarf planet's color patterns over the years hint that something is happening there, but no one knows exactly what.
The planet is shifting weather patterns too, so there will be some interesting developments there too.
The record seemed to brand Björk not so much a rising star, but a distant planet with complex weather patterns.
The landscape over which Kate flies, at the outset of her mission, could be an alien planet, with its swirling patterns of rock, were it not for the tiny shadow of the airplane passing across them like a bug.
What if animals are completely aware, or worse, aliens from another planet monitoring human behavioral patterns?
