Global Heat Wave - climate change?

The global heat wave is due to a climate process, a weakened jet stream and the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation. 




It is important to distinguish a climate process from climate change which is a change in a climate process.  There was a previous experience with what is happening now in 1976.  It's occurrence is a climate process.  The current heat wave is greater than the one that occurred in 1976.  That's climate change.  Climate change is a climate process becoming more extreme.

For example, El Nino is a climate process.  The planet warms during an El Nino.  However, El Ninos are getting hotter,



El Ninos are getting hotter.  That's climate change.

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