What You Missed in We the Geeks: “Weather is Your Mood and Climate is Your Personality”

[Fred Sanders]

Summing up the distinction between short-term changes in the weather and long term climate trends in today’s "We the Geeks" Hangout, Dr. J. Marshall Shepherd, President of the American Meteorological Society, used nine simple words: "weather is your mood and climate is your personality." He later highlighted a need among scientists to correct the misconception that cold snaps disprove climate change, comparing it to the rationale: “because its night time, the sun went away.”

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/2014/01/10/we-geeks-wrap-weather-your-mood-and-climate-your-personality