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Definition: average too specific?

Currently definition says "On Earth, interactions between the five parts of the climate system that produce daily weather and long-term averages of weather are called "climate" " A problem I see with this is that average is only one statistic, other statistics like variability/ranges are also part of climate. To me, 'Climate is the statistics of weather' paints a potentially misleading picture that it is about statistics. On Talk:Climate_system I wondering if the version there is improved or worsened by saying something like: "Climate is the average, variability and other measures of weather, typically over a period of 30 years, and is determined by a combination of processes in the climate system". It is of course important to source a definition rather than just make it up. crandles (talk) 14:13, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Per WP:MULTI it would be better to strike your comment here and instead provide a pointer HELP:DIFF to the duplicate thread at Climate system. Or vice-versa, I don't care. NewsAndEventsGuy (talk) 14:31, 26 August 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Very inaccurate and misleading simplistic maps

There are two newly created (2019) simplistic maps used in this article, one being cold-warm, the other being cold-warm-hot. Both are extremely inaccurate whether you take coldest month means, warmest month means or overall annual means. It hasn't been specified anywhere on the Wikimedia page what they are based on, and until a correction is made to the map as well as proper referencing, it should be removed from the article. I am removing the two images from the article and will also be posting on their respective Wikimedia pages as well. 85.153.207.181 (talk) 06:00, 23 December 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Advice!

I propose to merge the koppen classification with this article, it's more practical that it is only one Hastengeims (talk) 00:41, 18 May 2021 (UTC)[reply]

AAP

VP 157.51.182.232 (talk) 15:33, 23 February 2022 (UTC)[reply]

What is the meaning of climate

English 72.252.112.182 (talk) 01:44, 3 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Missing aspect of the subject

Matthew Fontaine Maury's Physical Geography gave a list of factors that determine climate: distance from the Equator, distance from the sea, prevailing winds and ocean currents, and height above sea level. Whilst the exact formulation varies ("elevation" or "altitude" instead of "height above sea level", "continentality" instead of "distance from the sea", and sometimes the addition of "orography" or "relief"), this can be found in geographical texts through to this century. It's an aspect of the subject that's entirely missing from this article. Note that controlling factors is not the same as classification. Uncle G (talk) 16:47, 13 May 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Fell free to edit the article Chidgk1 (talk) 07:19, 25 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Citations needed

Hello @Benson Chibuzor. Welcome to Wikipedia and thanks for editing this article. I see you've added a few {{citation needed}} tags, after existing citations. Could you clarify? If the citation in the article did not contain the information to verify the sentence, you may want to add {{verification failed}} instead. Femke (talk) 12:31, 24 September 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Somebody deleted a discussion topic: who and why?

A discussion was under way on an error in the published article. Who did it and why? Sidney Oldberg (talk) 22:41, 14 September 2023 (UTC)[reply]

have you checked the "view history" tab? DecFinney (talk) 12:48, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Misguided conversion of C to F

In the last paragraph of the Definition section, I find:

the thermohaline circulation of the ocean leads to a 5 °C (41 °F) warming

in which the cvt template is used to convert 5C; unfortunately, this template is a template to convert actual temperatures rather than temperature changes – so it would convert 0C to 32F, instead of 0F, for example – and it duly converts 5C to 41F instead of converting the 5C change to a 9F change. I'm hoping someone familiar with the right templates can replace cvt with something better suited to the task… -- Eddy 2A02:FE1:7C:4D00:1A31:BFFF:FE27:3497 (talk) 19:16, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]

OK, found somewhere earlier in the page not using a template, so substituted "5 °C (9 °F)" for the misguided use of cvt; but ideally there would be distinct templates for conversion between positions on the temperature scale and displacements within that scale; given that the scales have different zeros, those aren't the same deal. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2A02:FE1:7C:4D00:1A31:BFFF:FE27:3497 (talk) 19:25, 9 October 2024 (UTC)[reply]