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Solving Weather and Climate Confusion with One (Satirical) Law

A cheeky British video solves public confusion of weather and climate once and for all.

I often whine about public confusion of climate and weather. If only it were this simple to clear it all up. Just pass a law:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-F8EO3qOVk


"I mean look at this weather, eh. Still, I'm sure it'll average out statistically to indicate a long term warming trend." Exactly.

Yes, we've been spending a fair amount of time talking about how the extreme weather events of the past year do bear the imprints of a warmer—and, thus, wetter—world. But weather is not climate. TIME's Bryan Walsh made the point as well as I've read: "it's a mistake to use any one storm—or even a season's worth of storms—to disprove climate change (or to prove it)…Weather is what will happen next weekend; climate is what will happen over the next decades and centuries."

Hat tip for the video to Chris Mooney.

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