Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) obtained a science lesson on social media after she took a web page out of the conservative winter playbook and conflated climate with local weather change.
Amid excessive winter climate throughout a lot of the U.S., Boebert on Sunday posted on X, previously Twitter:
“You’ve got to appreciate the irony of climate protestors trudging through a foot of snow and -30 degree wind chills to yell about how the planet is warming.”
“They just don’t see it, do they?” she added.
Critics mocked Boebert’s incorrect understanding of local weather change.
Some folks say “weather is what you get” and “climate is what you expect.” In a nutshell, “weather” refers back to the extra native modifications within the local weather we see round us, on quick timescales from minutes to hours to days to weeks. Examples are acquainted – rain, snow, clouds, winds, storms, warmth waves and floods. “Climate” refers to longer-term averages (they could be regional or international), and might be regarded as the climate averaged over a number of seasons, years or many years. Climate change is tougher for us to get a way of as a result of the timescales concerned are for much longer, and the influence of local weather modifications might be much less quick.
Critics spelled out the distinction to Boebert:
