{"id":1872,"date":"2015-03-01T16:07:51","date_gmt":"2015-03-01T16:07:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/?p=1872"},"modified":"2015-03-01T16:32:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-01T16:32:12","slug":"on-weather-and-climate-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2015\/03\/on-weather-and-climate-change\/","title":{"rendered":"On weather and climate change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes people tend to\u00a0mistake weather (a short-term phenomenon) for climate (the long-term average). I recently came across this video in which astrophysicist <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neil_deGrasse_Tyson\">Neil deGrasse Tyson<\/a> explains the difference between the two. I think it&#8217;s a brilliant example of conveying complex concepts using a simple analogy.\u00a0In this case that of walking a dog on the beach:<\/p>\n<!--YouTube Error: bad URL entered-->\n<p>Of course, different audiences can digest, or require, much\u00a0more\u00a0complexity\u00a0than\u00a0this video. But in general, we should have more scientific insights imparted\u00a0like this: using short, simple analogies narrated by people with proper\u00a0credentials.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes people tend to\u00a0mistake weather (a short-term phenomenon) for climate (the long-term average). I recently came across this video in which astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the difference between the two. I think it&#8217;s a brilliant example of conveying complex concepts using a simple analogy.\u00a0In this case that of walking a dog on the beach: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/2015\/03\/on-weather-and-climate-change\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On weather and climate change<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,10],"tags":[98,176],"class_list":["post-1872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-misc","category-showcase","tag-science","tag-teaching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/degrasse-tyson-on-climate-change.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3pPwF-uc","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1872"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1876,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1872\/revisions\/1876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ralphstraumann.ch\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}