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Originally Posted by **********
Of course I am not qualified to say for a fact that Global Warming is real. I'm not a scientist. However, scientists, Climatologists, Nasa, NOAA, all say Global warming is a fact, since I know for a fact they are all much smarter than me, I am inclined to take their word for it.
Your "own community" is "weather". "Weather" is local, while "Climate" is global. Or put another way, the "mean temperature" or "average". What you, I and everyone else sees with our own eyes and weather forecasts are local, small pieces. The average temperature, the mean temperature of the entire earth, is rising.
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You might want to brush up on your definitions of "climate" and "weather"
There might be such a thing as the "global climate" but that's not what you said, you said whether is local, climate is global.
For example, do you think the climate is the same at the South Pole as it is at the Equator? No it isn't, sites such as Wikipedia list the climate for each region or area of the globe.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equator#Climate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Pole#Climate
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_P..._day_and_night
Climate is a measure of the average pattern of variation in temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, precipitation, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological variables in a
given region over long periods of time. Climate is different from weather, in that weather only describes the short-term conditions of these variables in a given region.
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy.[1] Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere,[2][3] just below the stratosphere.
Weather generally refers to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate is the term for the average atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time.[4] When used without qualification, "weather", is understood to mean the weather of Earth.
From Merriam-Webster:
Climate
: a region with particular weather patterns or conditions
: the usual weather conditions in a particular place or region
: the usual or most widespread mood or conditions in a place
Weather
the state of the air and atmosphere at a particular time and place : the temperature and other outside conditions (such as rain, cloudiness, etc.) at a particular time and place