To Confund: to
throw Nature into increased confusion or disorder.
Confundology: The study of confusion, chaos, disorder, disruption and ruination in Nature. The study of disorder in Nature due to climate change.
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tr.v. con·found·ed, con·found·ing,
con·founds
1. To cause to become confused or
perplexed.
3. To make (something bad) worse: Do
not confound the problem by losing your temper.
4. To cause to be ashamed; abash: an
invention that confounded the skeptics.
5. To damn.
6. a. To frustrate: trivial demands that
confounded the peace talks; b. Archaic To bring to ruination.
[Middle
English confounden, from Anglo-Norman confundre, from Latin confundere,
to mix together, confuse : com-, com- + fundere, to pour;
see gheu- in Indo-European roots.]
The
opposite of Phenology… the science dealing with the influence of
climate on the recurrence of such annual phenomena of animal and plant life as
budding and bird migrations. Phenology is the systematic study of pattern and order in Nature due to climate,
lunar and solar cycles.