C_Clayton_Jones
Diamond Member
‘What Trump…[doesn’t] seem to understand -- or choose to ignore -- is that "weather" and "climate" are not the same thing.
Here's a brief primer on the difference between the two, via NASA: "Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere 'behaves' over relatively long periods of time."
That it is cold on any given day -- or week! or month! -- is not indicative of much of anything about the climate and whether it is warming or not. If the "weather = climate" logic held, a series of sweltering summer days could reasonably be concluded as incontrovertible evidence that the planet is getting warmer.
Which, of course, it is.’
Donald Trump doesn't know the difference between climate and weather - CNNPolitics
And of course the usual USMB rightwing morons will be posting this winter about how cold it is (weather) as ‘evidence’ the earth is not warming (climate).
Here's a brief primer on the difference between the two, via NASA: "Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are over a short period of time, and climate is how the atmosphere 'behaves' over relatively long periods of time."
That it is cold on any given day -- or week! or month! -- is not indicative of much of anything about the climate and whether it is warming or not. If the "weather = climate" logic held, a series of sweltering summer days could reasonably be concluded as incontrovertible evidence that the planet is getting warmer.
Which, of course, it is.’
Donald Trump doesn't know the difference between climate and weather - CNNPolitics
And of course the usual USMB rightwing morons will be posting this winter about how cold it is (weather) as ‘evidence’ the earth is not warming (climate).
