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The global question is: "what is the difference between climate and weather?"
The answer is: "global climate" is a global climate system, and weather is a local production of that global climate system (The Damaged Global Climate System, 2, 3, 4).
So, when two people declare at the same time: "the weather is hot today in my local area" as the other says "the weather is cold today in my local area" ... who is correct?
Both are correct in the sense that weather is a local thing (All Weather Is Local, 2, 3, 4) while the global climate system is a global thing.
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So, one has to wonder sometimes why the news media, some scientists, and even the president, dwell on the senseless question "was this hot/cold weather event today the result of global warming?"
I have written often that the proper question is: "is all weather, now, the result of the damaged global climate system?"
There is only one answer to that: "yes."
At any given time, now, the damaged Global Climate System produces all weather, whether we think that weather it produced is good weather, or we think that it is bad weather.
What would those same two people say if stormy weather passed over the west coast, bringing rain to drought stricken areas ("good weather"), contributed to severe flooding along the Mississippi River ("bad weather"), deadly tornadoes in Texas ("bad weather"), then finally caused -20 deg. F to -40 deg. F temperatures to warm up to 32 deg. F above zero at the North Pole ("good weather")?
That happened recently (and is still happening).
That ongoing weather event is still proceeding:
That same storm was creating tornadoes in the tornado alley area: "The vigorous low pressure system that helped spawn devastating tornadoes in the Dallas area on Saturday is forecast to explode into a monstrous storm over Iceland by Wednesday".(Washington Post, cf. Mississippi River Floods, Warm Arctic Storm To Hurl Hurricane Force Winds at UK and Iceland, Push Temps to 36-72+ Degrees (F) Above Normal at North Pole).
That stormy weather came from the Pacific Ocean area, impacted west coast drought areas favorably, then impacted other areas unfavorably with floods and tornadoes, and is still a large threat thousands of miles from where it began.
It was "local weather" at all of those locations but was produced by a global climate system which has been damaged by the heat engine we call civilization.
The Damaged Global Climate System produces all weather, and all of that weather now is all produced by a system damaged by global warming.
So, enough already with the myth that "no one weather event can be attributed to global warming" (False Climate Change Meme Infects The President).
All weather is generated by the system that is now damaged due to over a century of global warming caused by civilization's misuse of fossil fuels.
The previous post in this series is here.