Episode 55

[FOCUS] Climate And Weather (2)

Episode Summary: This episode is an excerpt from a previous episode about Carbon Almanac's contributors' own experiences of signs that the climate is changing

Today’s episode is another conversation on Climate and Weather with contributors from all over the world. They explain, in their own words, the difference between weather and climate.

To listen to the full episode of this conversation, go here

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Don’t Take Our Word For It, Look It Up!

You can find out more on pages 32 and 33 of the Carbon Almanac and on the website you can tap the footnotes link and type in 342

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Featuring Carbon Almanac Contributors Leekei Tang, Inma Lopez, Steve Heatherington, Katherine Palmer, Tania Marien and Olabanji Stephen..

Leekei is a fashion business founder, a business coach, an international development expert and podcaster from Paris, France. 

Imma is from Cádiz in the South of Spain, living in Aberdeen, Scotland. Imma is a sommelier, a poet, a podcaster, a mother, a slow food advocate, and an animist activist. 

From a  beautiful valley in Wales, UK, Steve is a Podcast Coach, Producer and Alpaca Shepherd. Steve is fascinated by the ideas of regeneration beyond sustainability and is still a biologist at heart. 

From the great outdoors of Vancouver in Canada, Katherine is a Copywriter and Brand Designer for Small Eco-Businesses, part-time Aromatherapist and Workshop Coordinator. 

Tania is from South California, USA, she is a podcaster and independent environmental education professional with experience connecting educators and bringing attention to the work of freelance professionals. 

Olabanji is from Lagos Nigeria. He’s a Creative Director and visual designer that helps brands gain clarity, deliver meaningful experiences and build tribes through Design & Strategy. He founded Jorney - a community designed to help people stay productive, accountable, and do their best work.

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The CarbonSessions Podcast is produced and edited by Leekei Tang, Steve Heatherington and Rob Slater.

Transcript
KATHERINE:

the difference between weather and climate is that climate

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is over the longterm many centuries.

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Weather patterns.

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Whereas weather is what we see out our window right now.

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What's happening.

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It's raining, it's snowing.

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It's sunny.

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That's weather.

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What's happening in the moment.

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Or what weather might happen tomorrow or the next day, but climate is what's

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going to happen next year and next decade.

KATHERINE:

Climate is also broader in geographic sense of, um, whether it's my weather

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here is not the same weather as in the town next to me, but the

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climate for my area is the same.

KATHERINE:

So climate is broader than.

TANIA:

The visual, um, from one of the right resources in the footnotes was

TANIA:

very helpful for the NOAA resource that showed climate, being a, like a closet,

TANIA:

like for this time of year, you usually wear this, but for today, whether they

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had examples of, um, you know, what you would wear for the current weather

TANIA:

outside your door, the current conditions outside for that, that was a helpful.

STEVE:

Yeah, no, that is, that is helpful because there are a bunch

STEVE:

of things that you put away when.

STEVE:

And going into the winter, you put, put, put them away.

STEVE:

Cause you don't, you don't need your shorts.

STEVE:

He don't need your, your, your lighter-weight clothes because we're

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going into a different time of the year.

STEVE:

And climate is, it's an interesting thing because it, it, it is the geography.

STEVE:

, of an area that determines that in lots of ways.

STEVE:

And I think there are things like mountain ranges and how close

STEVE:

you are to the, the oceans that are going to affect the climate.

STEVE:

Because if you've got pre prevailing winds and you can then

STEVE:

end up with things that are the.

STEVE:

The shadows or the, the areas where you're going to get much milder weather, or are

STEVE:

you going to get much harsher weather?

STEVE:

Cause you've got the strong northerly winds that are going to going to

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be driving in the colder weather.

STEVE:

w w where we are at the moment is, is in a valley there's roughly north south.

STEVE:

And it's really quite interesting the way that , the weather changes.

STEVE:

Very quickly.

STEVE:

And you notice quite often how the wind is coming from a different direction.

STEVE:

Ah, it's changed around and I'm getting the wind from the north

STEVE:

and you can feel how cold it is.

STEVE:

And the preventing wind for us over here, where I am in south Wales is

STEVE:

actually from the Southwest and it tends to be coming off the sea, which

STEVE:

is not too far from where we are.

STEVE:

So it's very wet generally.

STEVE:

And if it's coming from the north, it's different.

STEVE:

And if it's coming from the east, it's much drier.

STEVE:

So all of those things are to do with the weather, which we experienced daily,

STEVE:

but, but the climate we have here is the kind of the bigger picture geography,

STEVE:

uh, the mountain ranges and then proximity to the oceans, , and the sea.

STEVE:

So, often we we would just switch the terms around don't

STEVE:

we, we mix them together, which does get a bit more confusing.

INMA:

For me, in the area, I work with wines and we work with climate

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because , the wine artists in the world has to do with climate.

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So there is are many different in common, You know what to expect the

INMA:

growers know what to , expect their.

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, and nowadays is a bit crazy because it's in the middle of

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sprain, um, or even summer.

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And they go hailstones in the champagne area for the tremble has been two

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years in a row getting that, So that is whether by has to climate change.

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