Michael Baker wrote: > David, > I must have made some sense to you as you only objection is > semantics. However, there's no confusion here. Climate is merely the > tapestry woven by every day's weather. If one is predicting climate > then one is merely predicting what the weather will be like over a > period of time. >
Not at all. Climate is a long term average over a wide area, and tends to be predictable, whereas day-to-day weather for any given location is chaotic. I point this out because the fact that you don't understand it to me means all your other rationalizations are suspect. To use an automotive example, I can say with pretty high certainty that if I average the fuel economy of my Ford over an entire year, it will get very close to 20 mpg. However, if I try to specify what my fuel economy for any given day is, I could be way off, because I might get stuck in a traffic jam and spend a lot of time idling.
