On Feb 6, 5:56*am, Rich Grise wrote:
rangerssuck wrote:
On Feb 5, 7:12*pm, Rich Grise wrote:
Mother Nature is the most inexorable Denialist there is. ;-D
You really don't have a clt the differe betwe"weather" and "climate"
do you.
Uh, yeah:
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Definitions of climate on the Web:
* * * the weather in some location averaged over some long period of
* * * ^^^^^^^^^^^
time; "the dank climate of southern Wales"; "plants from a cold clime travel
best in winter"
* * * the prevailing psychological state; "the climate of opinion"; "the
national mood had changed radically since the last election"
* * * wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* * * Climate encompasses the statistics of temperature, humidity,
atmospheric pressure, wind, rainfall, atmospheric particle count and
numerous other meteorological elements in a given region over long periods
of time. ...
* * * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate
* * * In viticulture, the climates of wine regions are categorized based on
the overall characteristics of the area's climate during the growing
season. ...
* * * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_(wine)
* * * An area of the earth's surface between two parallels of latitude; A
region of the Earth; The long-term manifestations of weather and other
atmospheric conditions in a given area or country, now usually represented
by the statistical summary of its weather conditions during a period long
enough ...
* * * en.wiktionary.org/wiki/climate
* * * climatic - of or relating to a climate; "climatic changes"
* * * wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn
* * * Climates (?klimler) is the fourth feature film of the Turkish director
Nuri Bilge Ceylan. The film focuses on relationships; charting the decline
and possibility of renewal of a professional Istanbul couple, ?sa and
Bahar, played by Ceylan and his wife Ebru Ceylan. ...
* * * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climates_(film)
* * * Climate is the average weather conditions at a particular place over a
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * *^^^^^^^
*long period of time. Climate is the long-term predictable state of the
atmosphere. It is affected by physical features such as mountains, rivers,
positioning of the globe, plateaus, deserts, depressions and much more. ....
* * * gei.newscorp.com/resources/glossary.html
* * * Between 75-86 degrees Fahrenheit (26-30 degrees Celsius) Averaging 81
degrees Fahrenheit (28 degrees Celsius)
* * * guampedia.com/about-guam/
* * * The general or typical atmospheric conditions for a place and/or
period of time. Conditions include rainfall, temperature, thunderstorms,
lightning, freezes, etc.
* * *www.climas.arizona.edu/forecasts/glossary.html
* * * Typical mediterranean climate, with hot dry summers and warm wet
winters. The average temperature is 18 degrees C. Snowfall is extremely
rare, and approximately 148 days of the year are clear and sunny.
* * *http://www.armory.com/~turkiye/turke...mir/izmir.html
* * * ?limatic data for each MLRA was derived by joining digital spatial
maps of the MLRA boundaries with 1961-1991 climate data generated using
PRISM (Parameter-elevation Regressions on Independent Slopes Model). ...
* * * soils.usda.gov/survey/geography/mlra/mlra_definitions.html
* * * the typical or expected (average) weather pattern, as opposed to the
* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ^^^^^^^
*actual weather at any given instant.
* * * * ^^^^^^^
* * * rredc.nrel.gov/solar/glossary/gloss_c.html
* * * meteorological conditions, including temperature, rainfall and wind,
that characteristically occur in a particular region.
* * *http://www.climatesmart.qld.gov.au/g...ormed/glossary
* * * The prevailing or typical meteorological conditions and extremes of
any place or region.
* * * gozowe.accountsupport.com/glossary.shtml
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Hope This Helps!
Rich
Rich, you are the living embodyment of "if you can't dazzle them with
brilliance, baffle them with bull****."
To try to distort a single snowy winter into a rejection of global
climate change is to demonstrate a rather complete lack of
understanding of what climate is and how weather works.