Does chaos theory help to understand this particular phenomenon?

Might have missed a bit of sarcasm.

Nothing I said was the least bit sarcastic. The direct application to the upper atmosphere cooling isn't exactly what I meant, but 'counterintuitive things happening which are outside our experience of what can happen' is completely down to chaos in action on a global scale.

Counterintuitive or not, this effect was predicted decades ago. It doesn't seem like chaos factors into it.

Well, I didn't think that anyone would say "completely impossible to be up to speed on what reality's doing" without some arcane math topic and mean it perfectly seriously.

How is chaos theory fundamentally different than Prigogine's notion of self organizing systems, and is it really a better model than the latter?