Climate

The Great climates of the earth according to the Köppen Climate Classification System

Climate refers to a number of phenomena relative to a region and its weather.

Earth's climate is presently in a period of long, slow recovery from the Little Ice Age that ran for 300 or so years and ended in about 1850. [1]

"On all time scales, there is very good correlation between Earth's temperature and natural celestial phenomena such changes in the brightness of the Sun."^[1]

Climate affects the viability of flora and fauna in a given region. It also affects human beings desire to live (or not live), or vacation, in certain areas.

Climate factors[edit]

Factors to be taken into account in order to describe a climate include:

• Minimum cold season temperature
• Annual rainfall
• Length of periods without rainfall (droughts)
• Likelihood of regular flooding
• Wind speeds encountered
• Cloud cover versus sunny weather

Climate classification[edit]

The Köppen Climate Classification System is the most widely used for classifying the world's climates.

Climate change[edit]

Main article: Climate change

Books[edit]

• A Climate Crisis a la Gore: The real profit pushing the perception of man made global warming

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