Stop Conflating Weather And Climate: Consider Macroweather

Monday, February 25, 2013 - 16:10 in Earth & Climate

Climate change causing every weather event enjoyed the kind of fallacious media coverage in late 2012 it hadn't gotten since 2006 - it remains bad science. While short-term weather is notoriously volatile, climate is more of an average weather pattern over a long period of time. This dichotomy provides the analytical framework for scientific thinking about atmospheric variability, including climate change. read more

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