Sorry for answering with xkcd but it's very on point - https://xkcd.com/1321/

What was considered norm not 30 years ago is now called colder than usual and used as a rebuttal for climate change.

climate is long term, weather is short term[1]. Its a subtle difference and often confused, especially if english isn't your first language.

[1]http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_wea...

More to the point: Climate is global, Weather is local.

Even if your summer was cold, it was extra hot elsewhere and more than cancelled out the difference. Next year it could be reversed.

In fact the reversal did happen. The US had an unusually cool and wet summer last year and an unusually hot one this year.

There's not always a 1:1 mapping of words between languages, so the nuance of "climate" vs. "weather" in English might get confusing.

Sure but I am assuming the parent have read about climate change in german before. Whether he undertands the difference is another question all together.

Because to a non-native speaker the 2 words can be confused as synonyms.

Hell I didn't even know there was a distinct difference between the 2 words until just now (and i've been speaking english my whole life), and I had just assumed that these kinds of discussions were talking about the "long term" data.

I can't believe that I got downvoted so much just because somebody in a reply misconstrues my point and then others jump on the bandwagon.

Check again the starting comment: they make an analogy in which every month a new sprinting record is set. I then point out that such perceived "records" can be deceiving when it comes to climate because they might be local phenomena. I do this by giving a counter example to whatever "record" the OP was alluding to, namely that some parts of the world have not seen similar effects. My comment is not confusing weather and climate but is actually implicitly point it out: a series of new temperature records over the period of one year does not imply much in terms of climate.

I can't help but feel that the reason I got downvoted was not my comment but the way others reacted to it.

Well, in German

climate = Klima

weather = Wetter

So, I really don't think that the confusion can be excused by language in this case :)

strange, it never rained once when i was there, and i was there for at least 3 days.

I guess i am not sure I understand.

wasn't the parent just saying that where they were it wasn't that hot which is the wrong way to look at it but does that have anything to do with languages unless this is the first time the parent ever read anything about climate change and weather?

I'm amused that you're being chided for citing your local weather as a source of skepticism....yet if you were citing incredibly hot local temperatures as a reason you're incredibly concerned no one would blink an eye.

The core science of global climate change is surrounded by a cloud of toxic subjectivity and witch-hunting. The hypocrisy is sometimes staggering.

World wide consensus of scientists vs random dudes feeling about his local weather this year.

Whom to add salt to. Yes tough question indeed

What you have described has absolutely nothing to do with global climate change.

and today we learn about the concept of average...