Scientists fear climate confusion after wet summer - Yahoo!7
He says people have short memories when it comes to their experiences of weather conditions.
"You have a cold snap and you suddenly think, I want global warming to come now, not in 20 years or 10 years' time," he said.
"You have a heat wave and suddenly people are talking again about climate change."
He says people cannot personally detect the kind of warming trend that comes with climate change.
"People can't personally detect a long-term sensory scale warming trend; it's just impossible," he said.
"We know from the measurement records the planet is warming and that our climate is changing, it's just that we have a very difficult job explaining that when day-to-day weather varies by such a large amount."
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