Global warming is more complex. For example, we have extremely cold summer with lowest night temperatures under 10°C even in July (average low of last years is at least 14°C).
In my country it's quite "cold" (for the season) where I live, whereas just 300km south it's hot summer weather as per usual.
Also saying the summer is extremely cold when it's not even over yet is quite a stretch - there's about 6 weeks left, 4 of which could just as well become hot.
No data for July yet, but June was either 2nd or 3rd warmest on record depending on who reports data (EU Copernicus vs NOAA)
Previous months were:
January - warmest on record February - 2nd warmest March - 2nd warmest April - 2nd warmest, behind by only 0.01 Celcius May - warmest
See https://climate.copernicus.eu/surface-air-temperature-maps
At a smaller scale I got acquainted with this paradox as a child—where I grew up, every spring temperatures drop substantially for a period of time as rivers and lesser ice caps unfreeze.
“Why is it getting colder?” “Because it is getting hotter!”
At larger scales, if say parts of Arctic melt, that would cool a lot of air, and where this airmass ends up there will be cold weather.
As a non-native english speaker, I wasn't aware these were different things, and you didn't clarify. Could you explain the difference insofar as it's related to this conversation? The dictionary didn't help much; they still look like synonyms to me.
Weather[1]
1 : the state of the atmosphere with respect to heat or cold, wetness or dryness, calm or storm, clearness or cloudiness
Climate[2]
1 : a region of the earth having specified climatic conditions
2 : a : the average course or condition of the weather at a place usually over a period of years as exhibited by temperature, wind velocity, and precipitation b : the prevailing set of conditions (as of temperature and humidity) indoors a climate-controlled office 3 : the prevailing influence or environmental conditions characterizing a group or period : atmosphere
1. A single data point.
2. The average of many data points
Saying "climate change is more complex" because you're having a cool summer is wrong, because global warming is a climate-level change and a cool summer is weather. You cannot look at moment to moment or even season to season weather to describe climate change. Climate is usually described in long term trends, e.g., "For the last 50 years, global temperature rose at an average rate of about 0.13°C (around one-quarter degree Fahrenheit) per decade-almost twice as fast as the 0.07°C per decade increase observed over the previous half-century." [2] This is a typical description of climate change, explaining a trend over decades.
[1] https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/noaa-n/climate/climate_we...
[2] https://www.climate.gov/news-features/videos/history-earths-...
Edit to add, before I put my foot in my mouth: climate does inform weather, so you will see, for example, people saying that the Siberian heatwave are probably influenced by human climate change. Based on the original article, what they're saying is that this event would have been nearly impossible without human contributions.
Climate is a set of sustained climatic conditions. E.g. Mediterranean summers being hot and dry is climate. Boston winters being very snowy is climate.
Climate can only be observed in the order of years and decades. Weather is observed in the order of hours/days.
Scientists first use the term "global warming", and then when the denialists point to localized temperature decrease as counterevidence (totally ignoring the global part), we adopt the term "climate change". And now the skeptics say the reason we switched the term is because it's wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯