#TriviaThursday NOW THAT ADULTS ARE IN CHARGE AGAIN, IT'S TIME TO GET TO WORK! Today's series will cover climate and effects of climate change, which seems to inspire myth more than many other sciences. #Climate #ClimateScience

#TriviaThursday The primary myth of #ClimateChange confuses "weather" with "climate." WEATHER is local and temporary. CLIMATE describes patterns over a long period of time across large regions. #Climate #ClimateScience

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WEATHER happens at a particular time & place. Hurricanes, tornadoes, rain, clouds gathering, or wind blowing are all weather events.

CLIMATE of an area is measured conditions over time to see averages: rainfall, temps, wind velocity, humidity, etc.

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#TriviaThursday GLOBAL CLIMATE is the average over the entire planet. Land, oceans, air, plants & animals, and solar energy all affect one another in Earth's harmonious system. Nothing changes in one place without changing something in another place. #Climate

#TriviaThursday The word 'climate' comes from Greek word klima, meaning 'slope zone' -- the term originally denoted a zone of the Earth between 2 lines of latitude. #Climate

#TriviaThursday This became the Latin 'clima' (genitive case 'climatis'), and came to English through the Old French term 'climat' -- which referred to the slope of the Earth from the Equator to the poles. #Climate

#TriviaThursday The term 'global warming' doesn't necessarily mean the planet will burst into flames, but that Earth is entering uncharted territory in terms of the SPEED of current warming patterns. These are all the organizations studying Earth's #Climate

#TriviaThursday A common (but bizarre) defense is that "the climate has changed in the past." Of course it did, both in terms of warming and cooling. https://goo.gl/wdhB7N  Sometimes, the result was MASS EXTINCTIONS OF LIVING CREATURES. #Climate #ClimateScience