Conclusion

It is a standing joke in academia that some of the worst undergraduate papers begin with the phrase “Since the beginning of time … ” and then go downhill from there. I easily could’ve started this book off the same way. “Since the beginning of time, people have been talking about weather … ” But in this instance at least, people actually have been talking about weather since the beginning of time – seriously, likely at least since the moment that we could begin talking about anything – and they have been conjecturing and hypothesizing about how weather will affect them. All this to say, I can’t purport to give a comprehensive overview of everything that’s ever been said in a short book like this.