Weather refers to short-term changes in atmosphere while climate is how we define long-term weather patterns in an area. [1] Saying "climate change is more com

Weather refers to short-term changes in atmosphere while climate is how we define long-term weather patterns in an area. [1] Saying "climate change is more complex" because you're having a cool summer is wrong, because global warming is a climate-level change and a cool summer is weather. You cannot look at moment to moment or even season to season weather to describe climate change. Climate is usually described in long term trends, e.g., "For the last 50 years, global temperature rose at an average rate of about 0.13°C (around one-quarter degree Fahrenheit) per decade-almost twice as fast as the 0.07°C per decade increase observed over the previous half-century." [2] This is a typical description of climate change, explaining a trend over decades. [1] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_weather.html https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_we... [2] https://www.climate.gov/news-features/videos/history-earths-temperature-1880 https://www.climate.gov/news-features/videos/history-earths-... Edit to add, before I put my foot in my mouth: climate does inform weather, so you will see, for example, people saying that the Siberian heatwave are probably influenced by human climate change. Based on the original article, what they're saying is that this event would have been nearly impossible without human contributions.