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I would take it with a grain of salt. In Germany, we had warm summers in recent years, but this year's July has generally been cold and very rainy.
by kleiba 10y ago
I would take it with a grain of salt. In Germany, we had warm summers in recent years, but this year's July has generally been cold and very rainy.
- pinaceae 10y agoand today we learn about the concept of average...
- acomjean 10y agoclimate is long term, weather is short term[1]. Its a subtle difference and often confused, especially if english isn't your first language. [1]http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_weather.html http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_wea...
- ThomPete 10y agoWhat on earth does language have to do with it? Other countries write about climate change too :)
- Klathmon 10y agoBecause to a non-native speaker the 2 words can be confused as synonyms. Hell I didn't even know there was a distinct difference between the 2 words until just now (and i've been speaking english my whole life), and I had just assumed that these kinds of discussions were talking about the "long term" data.
- konschubert 10y agoWell, in German climate = Klima weather = Wetter So, I really don't think that the confusion can be excused by language in this case :)
- lintiness 10y agostrange, it never rained once when i was there, and i was there for at least 3 days.
- ThomPete 10y agoI guess i am not sure I understand. wasn't the parent just saying that where they were it wasn't that hot which is the wrong way to look at it but does that have anything to do with languages unless this is the first time the parent ever read anything about climate change and weather?
- kleiba 10y agoI can't believe that I got downvoted so much just because somebody in a reply misconstrues my point and then others jump on the bandwagon. Check again the starting comment: they make an analogy in which every month a new sprinting record is set. I then point out that such perceived "records" can be deceiving when it comes to climate because they might be local phenomena. I do this by giving a counter example to whatever "record" the OP was alluding to, namely that some parts of the world have not seen similar effects. My comment is not confusing weather and climate but is actually implicitly point it out: a series of new temperature records over the period of one year does not imply much in terms of climate. I can't help but feel that the reason I got downvoted was not my comment but the way others reacted to it.
- dwc 10y agoThere's not always a 1:1 mapping of words between languages, so the nuance of "climate" vs. "weather" in English might get confusing.
- ThomPete 10y agoSure but I am assuming the parent have read about climate change in german before. Whether he undertands the difference is another question all together.
- jandrese 10y agoMore to the point: Climate is global, Weather is local. Even if your summer was cold, it was extra hot elsewhere and more than cancelled out the difference. Next year it could be reversed. In fact the reversal did happen. The US had an unusually cool and wet summer last year and an unusually hot one this year.
- kilotaras 10y agoSorry for answering with xkcd but it's very on point - https://xkcd.com/1321/ https://xkcd.com/1321/ What was considered norm not 30 years ago is now called colder than usual and used as a rebuttal for climate change.
- hellofunk 10y agoWhat you have described has absolutely nothing to do with global climate change.
- MrZongle2 10y agoI'm amused that you're being chided for citing your local weather as a source of skepticism....yet if you were citing incredibly hot local temperatures as a reason you're incredibly concerned no one would blink an eye. The core science of global climate change is surrounded by a cloud of toxic subjectivity and witch-hunting. The hypocrisy is sometimes staggering.
- njharman 10y agoWorld wide consensus of scientists vs random dudes feeling about his local weather this year. Whom to add salt to. Yes tough question indeed