The heat dome is weather and he's using one extreme weather phenomenon to make a point about this summer (climate). From your link:
In most places, weather can change from minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-to-day, and season-to-season. Climate, however, is the average of weather over time and space. An easy way to remember the difference is that climate is what you expect, like a very hot summer, and weather is what you get, like a hot day with pop-up thunderstorms.
Enough (short-term) extreme weather events will make the longer-term (climate) more extreme as well since the latter is based on averages over time.
Yeah, I guess because averages over years are showing these increases and extreme events, etc. His tweet isn't really careless with that conflation of weather and climate, but I have seen a number of much more alarmist/sensationalist articles and headlines which are. It just seems like something people need to be very conscious of - as I said "devil's advocate".
The heat dome is weather and he's using one extreme weather phenomenon to make a point about this summer (climate). From your link:
In most places, weather can change from minute-to-minute, hour-to-hour, day-to-day, and season-to-season. Climate, however, is the average of weather over time and space. An easy way to remember the difference is that climate is what you expect, like a very hot summer, and weather is what you get, like a hot day with pop-up thunderstorms.
Enough (short-term) extreme weather events will make the longer-term (climate) more extreme as well since the latter is based on averages over time.
Edit: He's now in a better position to judge with two-thirds of the summer gone/done.
University of Washington Meteorologist Cliff Mass,
something of a big deal in the Pacific Northwest weather scene and bit
player in the climate denial world as someone whoâs not-a-denier-but-is-someone-deniers-love, wrote a (now-thrice-edited) blog post comparing the Black Lives Matter protesters in Seattle to the Brownshirts and Nazis who carried out Kristallnacht, calling photos of the two events âeerily similar.â
#2 - John Christy
During the Trump presidency, Christy
helped to compile an analysis for the Environmental Protection Agency.
When presenting his analysis to the EPAâs board, he made the claim that
carbon levels simply do not affect the climate in a notable way. Christy concluded that restrictions did
not matter since carbon levels do not affect the environment anyway.
Christyâs stance on climate change
puts him at odds with many colleagues. The vast majority of climate
scientists readily admit that climate change is real, and much of the
disagreement revolves around climate models constructed by scientists to
project future climate trends based on current climate action. Most
climate projection models that scientists agree on are brushed off by
Christy as not fully realized and he holds that the warming trends they
project are nothing to worry about. In his own words: âThereâs a climate establishment, and Iâm not in itâ.
Sure...it's not about politics... it just aligns so well.
satellite data apparently suggests that the proportion of the earth burning up in wildfires has been steadily trending down over the past few decades.
The proportion of earth capable of supporting wildfires has been steadily trending down over the past few decades.
westslope wrote:
Media coverage has dramatically climbed.
An absolutely worthless comment designed to sow doubt or seem authoritative. Unprovable and unknowable since the actual definition of "media coverage" is so vastly different from just one decade ago, let alone a few.
