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Weather (the day-to-day fluctuations of the atmosphere) and climate (normally taken as a moving 30-year average of weather) are important determinants of a region’s energy use, its growth of vegetation, its means of transportation, its water supplies and its patterns of habitation and development. Events such as several years of dry or wet conditions constitute a variation in climate. Climate change, on the other hand, refers to shifts in normal climategenerally in the same direction—lasting over decades.
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Tolba, M.K. (1992). Climate change. In: Saving Our Planet. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2278-8_3
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