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climate 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.nas

climate 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 ago
What on earth does language have to do with it? Other countries write about climate change too :)
- Klathmon 10y ago
  Because 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 ago
    Well, 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 ago
      strange, it never rained once when i was there, and i was there for at least 3 days.
  - ThomPete 10y ago
    I 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 ago
    I 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 ago
  There'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 ago
    Sure 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 ago
More 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.

ThomPete 10y ago

What on earth does language have to do with it? Other countries write about climate change too :)

Klathmon 10y ago
Because 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 ago
  Well, 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 ago
    strange, it never rained once when i was there, and i was there for at least 3 days.
- ThomPete 10y ago
  I 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 ago
  I 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 ago
There'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 ago
  Sure 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 ago

More 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.