I was reading a book trilogy the other day

by Peter F Hamilton... It's called the Night's Dawn Trilogy, and in it he mentions about the butterfly flapping idea. In a world where Earth's atmosphere has been decimated and the world is suffering the effects of massive storms orders of magnitude more powerful than those today, a phrase was coined. Supposedly a newscaster mentioned how it would have to have taken an armada of butterflies flapping their wings in the Amazon to create the storm then raging in Europe. The idea stuck and from then on the storms were called Armada Storms. Little piece of random information for you there, I thought that was interesting.