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.