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Some of those power laws have to break down. If you find a storm of 10^30 J, it isn't Terrestrial weather any more. Similarly, if we ever had 10000% growth in one year, that's probably because we hit the singularity and all bets are off.
The models may incorporate those divergences, but only because they're wrong.