Earths' Climate Crisis 8.2k Event

Climate is the long-term weather pattern in a region, typically averaged over 30 years.^¹ More rigorously, it is the mean and variability of meteorological variables over a time spanning from months to millions of years.^¹ Some of the meteorological variables that are commonly measured are temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, and precipitation.^¹ In a broader sense, climate is the state of the components of the climate system, including the atmosphere, hydrosphere, cryosphere, lithosphere and biosphere and the interactions between them.^¹ The climate of a location is affected by its latitude, longitude, terrain, altitude, land use and nearby water bodies and their currents.^¹