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.
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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