Can you differentiate "climate" from "weather"?

Actually we should differentiate between weather, "climate" and global climate change.

Weather involves heat moving from one place to another within the global system. When arctic air moves out of the arctic, some other place gets that air (burrr!) but other warmer air replaces it in the arctic.

Global climate change refers to changes in the total amount of heat within the system. A number of things change that total heat, including changes in the sun, changes in the earth's orbit, ocean currents patterns and changes in the chemical makeup of the atmosphere.

"Climate" though is regional. One place is a rain forrest and another a desert. Regional climates do change due to global climate change, but not all in the same way. Should arctic ice melt fast enough, for example, to desalinate the Atlantic enough to slow the heat conveyor, the NE US and NW Europe will get much colder while the tropics gets even hotter.

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We even see this from the scientific community:

"Climate change is making itself felt in terms of day-to-day weather in the United States," says Gerald Meehl, a researcher at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR)....

While the article is about record highs and lows over time, comments like this certainly gives license to anyone to make comments about the day-to-day weather.

Weather is a momentary thing, the weather can change drastically in a matter of minutes.

Climate is an average of the temperatures over a long period of time.

ie: arctic, temperate or tropical climate.

Absolutely spot on, agree with you 100%.

Some people make genuine errors when confusing weather with climate - and that's both understandable and acceptable. Unfortunately there is a group that should know better, but when it suits them they will use weather events to 'prove' their point. It shows contempt for other users of this forum and demonstrates either a) a willingness to lie and deceive on their part or b) a level of ignorance which should preclude them from passing comment.

I think "climate" refers to the weather conditions at certain location, which could be a town or the whole earth. Weather is not a reference to any place in particular unless you specify that with or commentary.

Why "30" years? Why not more if we have the data? I believe that surface temperature data collection has been going on for quite some time, though NOAA (in this country) has done a poor job of siting and maintaining the measuring equipment.... along with the issue of data-tampering.

climate is for when you want to go on vacation, and the agent says it will be in between 75 and 90, and then the weather is when you get there and it's 32 and snowing !

You are absolutely correct. But I see this same error (short term variability – weather) being used both to “prove” or “disprove” global warming, along with the local vs. global error. Both are flatly wrong.

Good explanation. Unfortunately, good explanations get ignored if the person you're trying to teach isn't interested in learning.