What is the difference between weather and climate? Let’s ask the expert government National Weather Service. [emphasis, links added]
weather Defined as the state of the atmosphere at a given time and place, involving variables such as temperature, humidity, wind speed and direction, and air pressure.
climate Defined as the expected frequency of specific states of the atmosphere, oceans, and land, including variables such as temperature, salinity, soil moisture, wind speed and direction, and current strength and direction. It covers weather over time and also involves interactions between components of the Earth system (e.g., atmospheric composition, volcanic eruptions, changes in the Earth's orbit around the Sun, and changes in the energy of the Sun itself).
This is a typical government explanation.
Simply put, weather is short-term, meaning days or weeks, while climate is long-term, meaning years, centuries, or longer.
It's sunny and unusually warm where I am today, but a week ago it was snowing and unusually cold. Climate warriors might label the former as global warming, the latter as global cooling, or a composite of the two as climate change. A rational person would call it weather.
The United Nations (UN) defines climate change,
Climate change refers to long-term changes in temperature and weather patterns. This change may be natural due to changes in solar activity or large volcanic eruptions. But human activities have been the main driver of climate change since the 1800s, primarily due to the burning of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas.
The first sentence is undoubtedly correct. The Great Lakes were once covered by a mile-thick ice sheet that disappeared when glaciers receded 10,000 years ago. Considering the Earth is 4.5 billion years old, that's not so long ago.
Somehow, the climate cooled and warmed long before any significant human activity. How many times has this happened over the past 4.5 billion years?
But the United Nations has argued that humans have been the “primary driver of climate change” since the 1800s, without explaining how the climate changed so drastically 10,000 years ago that melted a mile-thick ice sheet during a period of minimal human activity. .
The United Nations relies on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which reports in dire terms:
Many of the changes observed in climate are unprecedented in thousands if not hundreds of thousands of years, and some changes that have already occurred, such as continued sea level rise, are irreversible for hundreds to thousands of years.
Is today’s climate “unprecedented”? Do they know what temperatures were like hundreds of thousands of years ago? They should do so because the data are easily available and published in the prestigious journal Science.
The researchers used data assimilation, combining geological data with climate model simulations, to reconstruct the global average surface temperature. They found that “Earth's temperature changes are more dynamic than previously thought.” (PDF here)
Global temperatures are cooler today. The last time it was this cold was 300 million years ago. According to the chart, the Earth has been cooling over the past 50 million years. Any man-made warming now would help.
Scientists should know better, and so should the corporate media. But apparently, they didn't.
I cited several articles from this year in The Guardian, a two-hundred-year-old British newspaper that is considered “Britain's newspaper of record” (along with the Times of London), much like the New York Times in the United States “Same.
As a British newspaper, The Guardian observes climate change firsthand and reports on how it gets colder, warmer, and colder again.
Another record is the recent (geological term) history of the Thames. It froze at least 23 times between 1309 and 1814. In 1608, the “Frost Fair” took place when the river froze for more than six weeks.
What caused this freeze? London in the 1600s was dominated by overcrowding, disease, and crime rather than air conditioning, internal combustion engines, and backyard grills.
Most recently, the river froze in 1963 and partially froze again in 2021. .
The Guardian published two unironic reports this year. In February this year, their headline was “What will it look like when Spain runs out of water? Barcelona shows us just that.
In October, the new headlines were “Spain floods: Death toll exceeds 150, scientists say climate change is 'most likely explanation' – and it is.”
From water shortages to floods, all within a matter of months. Dry first and then wet. It gets cold, then warms up. vice versa. This is also normal. But the Guardian wants to have both. In their view, this is all caused by climate change.
A month ago, the newspaper wrote, “Spain’s deadly floods and droughts are two sides of the climate crisis coin.” In other words, all forms of weather are climate change.
CNN wants to have both. In December 2023, it was headlined “Winter is coming, but it's losing its cool.” A year later, without a hint of irony or introspection, it reversed itself with this headline: “Even in winter, the weather gets colder Very cold.”
Just like racism, when everything is considered racist, then nothing is racist. The same goes for climate change. Psychologists call this phenomenon confirmation bias:
This bias manifests itself when people select information that supports their views and ignore information that contradicts it, or when they interpret ambiguous evidence as supporting their existing attitudes. This effect is strongest for desired outcomes, emotionally charged issues, and deeply held beliefs.
It’s also a form of arrogance to believe we can predict the climate, let alone control it. The IPCC readily admits that “The climate system is a coupled, nonlinear chaotic system, and therefore long-term predictions of future climate states are impossible.”
Yet Al Gore, Greta Thunberg, John Kerry and other “climate experts” claim to know exactly how many years it will take for the Earth to become habitable.
Speaking of Al Gore, I recommend Joel Gilbert’s new movie, “Artificial Intelligence Al Gore’s Climate” Joel interviews Al Gore, an artificial intelligence, debunking Gore’s beliefs, expertise, and the left’s entire climate emergency.
To the fear-mongering, climate-catastrophe left, it’s all humanity’s fault, and with ever-increasing command and control mandates, rules, regulations, and taxes, we can influence forces beyond our understanding and control.
The climate is indeed changing – it has always been changing and it always will be changing. No matter what so-called experts, activists, or any world government agency says or does, temperatures are likely to rise from their current 500-million-year lows.
In their attempts to regulate and tinker with nature, they may inadvertently destroy everything they are trying to save—unless that is their plan.
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