Grant Dwight Jackson (born September 28 1942 in Fostoria Ohio) is a former major league baseball pitcher who played for the Philadelphia Phillies Baltimore Orioles New York Yankees Pittsburgh Pirates Montreal Expos and Kansas City Royals from 1965 to 1982.
Climate is the statistics of weather, usually over a 30-year interval. It is measured by assessing the patterns of variation in temperature, humidity, atmospheric pressure, wind, precipitation, atmospheric particle count and other meteorological variables in a given region over long periods of time.
1999. Climate and atmospheric history of the past 420,000 years from the Vostok ice core, Antarctica. Nature 399: 429-436.) Available at http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/abrupt/story2.html What is Climate Change? Climate change is a long-term shift in the statistics of the weather (including its averages). For example, it could show up as a change in climate normals (expected average values for temperature and precipitation) for a given place and time of year, from one decade to the next.