BlueOregon: Confusing weather with the climate

I almost hate to put this post up, because I'm not looking forward to the comments it will inspire from global warming deniers. But I feel I must, so here I go:

Many of us--myself included--look outside on any given day and use our immediate experience of the weather to help prove or disprove climate change. I myself have been known to do this during a spell of hot weather. ("It's so hot! We're turning into California!")

I'm vowing to stop doing that now.

Many commenters on BlueOregon the past week or so have been doing the same thing. They have used one snowstorm to prove that global warming does not exist. In doing so, they have confused the weather with the climate.

Pakistan: Carbon dioxide somehow blamed for colder winters and more deaths

KARACHI: A recently conducted study has revealed that in the last two years, the city has seen more people die in winters, possibly due to the fall in winter temperatures in comparison with previous years.
The climate change has increased the rates of cardiovascular diseases, stress, psychological disorders and skin diseases, revealed a research of the European Union carried out by the University of Karachi (KU) Department of Sociology faculty members.
It was discovered that the climate change might be the result of the green house effect, which is the heat trapping process by the atmosphere of the earth. Green house gases include carbon dioxide, methane and nitrogen.
“Due to the climatic changes, the death rate has increased among people of all ages. The death rates are higher in winters as compared to summers,” the study revealed. The European Union funded study was launched to find the reason behind the abnormal temperature changes in the city. During the study, the research team found that many cardiovascular-related deaths are induced by cold weather.
“Deaths from cardiovascular diseases were 50 percent greater in mid-winter than in mid-summer both in men and women of different age groups during 1976 to 1985,” the study further revealed.