I hear people say bizarre things like, “It snowed more this year. There’s no global warming”.
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Weather is an event; a snowstorm, a heatwave, a sudden rainshower.
Climate is a pattern or trend. The number of “once in a century” storms increasing over time is climate, even though each of those individual storms is weather or a weather pattern. It might snow more this year than last, but if the overall trend from the past 10 years is still moving towards less snow, then that’s not indicative of anything.
Additionally, climate change doesn’t simply mean that temperatures are increasing. The reason that “global warming” has fallen out of favor as compared to “climate change” is because meteorologists and scientists have observed that you get more extreme weather events, not just warmer weather. Places that used to get plenty of rainfall will get less, while places that didn’t get much might be subject to more flash flooding.
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