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.
Weather is what the atmosphere does in the short term, hour to hour, day to dayâ¦ Weather is chaotic, which means that even a microscopic disturbance can lead to large scale changesâ¦. Climate is the long-term average of the weather over a number of years.