The extensive use of fracking in the US, where it has revolutionised the energy industry, has prompted environmental concerns. The first is that fracking uses huge amounts of water that must be transported to the fracking site, at significant environmental cost.
Weather is the state of the atmosphere, to the degree that it is hot or cold, wet or dry, calm or stormy, clear or cloudy. Most weather phenomena occur in the troposphere, just below the stratosphere. Weather refers to day-to-day temperature and precipitation activity, whereas climate is the term for the statistics of atmospheric conditions over longer periods of time.
Climate is a countryâs normal weather over a long period of time. By climate we mean a countryâs rain and sunshine, winds, storms and everything else that makes up the weather. The weather changes from day to day and even from hour to hour. It can be sunny in the morning and cold and wet in the afternoon. The climate changes very slowly over thousands of years. We know that the Equator means heat and the Arctic means cold. Climates are also affected by how close a country is to the sea and by how high a country is.