What exactly is climate?

Climate is the statistics of weather.

Climate, like weather, describes the state of the atmosphere in terms of factors such as temperature, wind and rainfall. But whereas weather describes conditions as measured in hours, days or weeks, the climate is average weather conditions measured over the longer term: months, years or decades.

At least that's the way it's usually described. The truth is actually a tiny bit more complex because climate also encompasses variability – for example, the frequency of extreme weather events.

The distinction between weather and climate is an important one. For example, weather forecasts can be fairly specific ("it will be rainy tomorrow morning and cold in the afternoon, with temperatures dipping close to freezing") but are little use more than a few days into the future. By contrast, climate predictions focus on expected changes in average conditions, while recognising that individual days, weeks, months or years will always buck the longer-term trend.

Each area of the world has its own climate (and indeed its own weather), though scientists also study the planet's overall climate system – for example by tracking the average global temperature.

The term climate comes from the Greek klinein, or "slope", describing how the angle that the sun hits the earth varies in different regions.

Climate is the average atmospheric condition in a certain location near the surface of the Earth measured after a period of months to decades. Climatic elements include precipitation, temperature, humidity, sunshine, wind veloity, and phenomena such as fog, frost, and hailstorms, among others.

Climate is not weather. Look out the window today and it's sunny or cloudy or raining, it's cold or hot, it's windy or still. That's weather. But where you live you have average temperatures for every month, average rainfall, humidity, windspeed, etc. That's climate.

Climate change doesn't change weather, it changes climate. For instance, the US plains, the prairies, have always been a good place to grow wheat and corn and soybeans. Now, because the earth is heating up, much of this land is turning to desert. It doesn't get as much rain, hurricanes and even blizzards are more common, etc. The great grain-growing area has moved north, to Canada. This is happening in many great agricultural areas. Over the years this will cause a lot of trouble--people losing their farms and homes and jobs, food becoming more expensive, etc.

Climate is diffrent from weather. it contains temperature, humidity, air quality. Climate takes hundreds, thousands of years to change.

Climate means the temperature for example, the Sahara desert has a high climate. So, I think climate means weather.

The weather conditions in an area, usually over a long period of time.

Example: I live in a Tropical Climate.

This might help........http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqxENMKaeCU&wide=1

In our 200,000 years on Earth, humanity has hopelessly upset Mother Nature's delicate balance. Some experts claim that we have less than ten years to change our patterns of consumption and reverse the trend before the damage is irreversible. Produced to inspire action and encourage thoughtful debate, Home poses the prospect that unless we act quickly, we risk losing the only home we may ever have.

"Climate" is what the Meteorological Office can forecast to the nearest millilitre of rain and hundredth of a degree of temperature rise centuries in the future, as opposed to weather which the Meteorological Office cannot make a forecast even for tomorrow.

Clever these blokes, don't you agree?

Climate is the weather over a long period of time.