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Climate

Climate refers to the long-term regional or even global average of temperature, humidity and rainfall patterns over seasons, years or decades

Climate change

Climate change is a long-term change in the average weather patterns that have come to define Earth’s local, regional and global climates. These changes have a broad range of observed effects that are synonymous with the term