What always stands out, however, is that
many people don't seem to know that climate and weather are two different things. For example, there were a few cold days in April, and various people on Facebook and Twitter were already asking mockingly where climate change was?

Motto: You expect climate, you get weather!

What is weather?

Look out the window.
Is it sunny right now? Cloudy? Is it raining or even snowing? Whatever you're seeing right now, that's the weather!

We call weather a mix of events that take place in our atmosphere every day. The Earth only has one atmosphere, but it is so large that the weather is not the same everywhere. In some regions the weather does not change for months, in other parts of the world it can rain or snow from one minute to the next.

Many factors determine what the weather will be like, such as air pressure, temperature, humidity, wind speed and wind direction. All of these points together determine what the weather will be like at a certain time and place.

Since these factors change more or less frequently depending on location and season, the weather also changes more often.

Weather is a short-term behavior of the atmosphere, which can last for minutes or even months.

What is climate?

What kind of clothing would you pick out if you were flying to Hawaii?
Or to Alaska? You would immediately know that you would pack shorts and t-shirts for one place, but gloves and thick jackets for the other place.
And why? Because you know that it is usually very warm or very cold in these places: that is the climate!

Climate is the “big brother” of weather: It defines how the weather behaves in a certain region over a longer period of time. By observing the weather over a long period of time, over decades, it is possible to define what the average weather is usually like in certain places, i.e. what humidity there is, how often the sun shines, and so on.

Climate refers to the average behavior of the atmosphere over decades.

Regional and global climate

The earth is divided into various, different climate zones, of which we can say, for example, that it is almost always cold or hot here and there. This is a regional climate.
But we can also describe the climate of the entire planet, which is then called global

Scientists who study the global climate have to pay attention to many more factors than those who “only” look at a regional climate. The global climate also includes the amount of energy absorbed by the sun and the energy trapped in our atmosphere. “Locked up” in the sense that CO 2 and other gases do not leave our planet, but rather remain in the system and/or are converted.

The climate change

Global climate changes are nothing new; it has been established that thousands of years ago the global climate was changing repeatedly, from heat periods to ice ages.
However, scientists studying the global climate have now found that the Earth is warming faster than previous climate changes, and the reason is suspected to be the rapid increase in industrialization in recent decades.

However, some points are still unclear: Humans have also changed the chemical composition of the atmosphere, which undoubtedly has an influence on the climate, but it is also unclear how much the climate will change as a result and whether other points will also change how land use may or may not have an influence.

What effects does climate change have?

Climate change does not happen overnight, but in the long term it has far-reaching effects on all of humanity.
Rising global temperatures are expected to cause sea levels to rise further. This also changes the pattern of precipitation in many regions in the long term: while it rains more frequently in one place, it can lead to droughts in other places. Extreme weather phenomena and changes in the weather are also expected due to climate change.

Attention: If a rare weather phenomenon occurs at the moment, you should not immediately describe it as a “sign of climate change”! Extreme weather phenomena occur far too rarely and irregularly. It's just about weather , not climate !

Summary

Weather refers to the short-term behavior of the atmosphere, climate refers to the long-term, average behavior of the atmosphere.

So if there are a few really warm days in December or it snows in April, then these are short-term weather events. But if this happens over decades, this would be a climate .

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