Take a Walk in Mango Shoes 🥭 Plus, ways to slash your food waste

I had a pow-wow with a mate in the park the other day. We were chewing the fat on the future. I was wondering how he'd go with an increase in temp, being longhaired and all. My buddy didn't seem worried.
 
He said, "Sometimes the weatherman predicts sunny, walk in the park weather, but then it rains cats and dogs! So how can they predict climate change 50 years from now if they can't get next week's weather right?"
 
So, I explained dog to dog.
 
"There's a big difference between climate and weather, Max.
 
Weather is the atmosphere's behaviour over a short period of time; climate is how the atmosphere behaves over much longer stretches.
 
For weather, imagine playing ball with hundreds of tennis balls thrown in the air; each represents a different factor like wind, humidity, cloud formation, temperature and sunshine.
 
Scientists constantly track these factors, and each one varies constantly.
 
If one ball hits another, this alters the pattern, impacting the direction of the other balls, so the weather can vary in a matter of moments.
 
So, we think we're good for a week of walks in the park, but then it rains cats and dogs. 
 
For climate, imagine big data on cat memes. Since the early days of the internet, we have data showing the number of cat memes uploaded over all these years.
 
It hurts me to say, but unless something dramatic happens, like all cats move to Mars, we can predict they will continue to dominate the internet based on trends shown in the data.
 
It's the same for climate; scientists look at big data sets and trends to predict how the weather will behave in the long term, not on any given day.
 
Take your walks in the park; we can see from the data that the more you visit the park, the more you pee at your favourite tree.
 
Likewise, Scientists can see that the more CO2 we pump into the atmosphere, the higher the global temperature rises as a result.
 
It's like when we follow our noses on a walk; we dart all over the place, sniffing, stopping, scratching, and pooping. But our humans hold the leash and follow a predictable path – check this clip out; it explains it perfectly."
 
So there you have it, folks, tennis balls, cat memes, walks in the park and peeing on trees sums it all up.