Climate and Weather

Beautifull spring days here in Toronto mean that people like me are bringing up cushions from the storage locker and enlisting younger family members to wash balcony windows to enjoy the coming season. It’s easy to confuse weather and climate.

But the study of norms is sobering. It examines patterns over time. I don’t know whether there are similar Canadian statistics, but the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the US Department of Commerce publishes norms each decade and a new one was recently released. Comparisons between previous temperate climates and current warming ones are scary

This is what industrialization and other human action is creating. Look what we are doing to ourselves.