Comments on: Weather vs. Climate

By: There's a Drought—Is It Climate Change? | Surprising Science

There's a Drought—Is It Climate Change? | Surprising Science — Thu, 14 Jul 2011 14:47:05 +0000

[...] how I explained it a couple years ago: In short, weather is a data point. Climate is a collection of [...]

By: Whether the Weather Is Climate

Whether the Weather Is Climate — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:59:45 +0000

[...] increase in Britain over the next century. A better explanation would have involved explaining the difference between ‘weather’ and ‘climate’, whereby long-term trends (over thirty years) can change without necessarily being obvious in every [...]

By: Climate Change: Why We Worry | Surprising Science

Climate Change: Why We Worry | Surprising Science — Wed, 09 Dec 2009 15:27:59 +0000

[...] shocked by these results. Every time we write about anthropogenic climate change in the magazine or online, readers write to us saying that we’re [...]

By: Denis DuBay

Denis DuBay — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 21:25:52 +0000

Stanley,

A trend from 2000 to 2009 does not describe a climate. Look at this link to see what a trend in climate looks like for a more reasonable time period, the last 130 years.

http://thisviewofearth.blogspot.com/2009/08/2009-year-to-date-land-and-sea.html

By: stanley kimmel

stanley kimmel — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:08:48 +0000

How can you say the temperatures have been rising, since they have been falling since 2000? CO2 is as beneficial as oxygen, without it we would all parish.

By: Wolfgang Ortloff

Wolfgang Ortloff — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 15:25:20 +0000

nice article but you can say it much shorter:
Climate is what we expect
Weather is what we get.